Small scale garri processing plant

Small scale garri processing plant is very popular in West Africa, especially in Nigeria and Ghana. There are many small scale garri processing plant work with manual and machine at the same time.

For small scale garri processing plant, people normally do not have enough funds for fully industrial garri processing. So they have many women workers to do cassava washing and peeling the whole day in a small workshop. Normally, one worker can peel around 1ton fresh cassava one day. If the processor wants to produce 1ton or 2ton garri, he needs to hire around 10 workers to do the peeling job.

Garri processing machines

After manual work on cassava washing and peeling, then, they will choose garri processing machines to do the remaining steps. It includes a Cassava grating machine, a Cassava dewatering machine, and a Garri fryer.

Cassava peeler

1. Use a cassava grinding machine to grind cassava into mesh or pulps. The cassava grinding machine is normally an electric or diesel engine.

2. Then, use many bags to put the pulp into the bag. With 2-3 days of fermentation, and dewatering by Cassava dewatering machine. They will get a wet cassava cake with moisture of around 45%.

3. Next is the Cassava frying machine, for small scale traditional garri processing plants normally use an old type pan with firewood heating. It needs people to operate it all the time. Now, a modern garri processing plant will match an automatic garri fryer, with a larger capacity of around 100kg per hour. And it is more and more popular for small scale garri processing plants now.

4. Lastly, if people want to get the fine garri, they need a sieving machine to separate the garri into different qualities according to size. That is for meeting different customer’s special demands.

Henan Jinrui Company has rich experience in garri processing. If you want to set up a Small scale garri processing plant or buy some garri processing machines, please contact us for advice.