How to start a garri business in Nigeria?

It is well known that garri is the most common and popular staple food in Nigeria, not only for the poor but also for the rich. The poor eat garri because it is affordable. The rich eat garri because of its special flavor. Almost every Nigerian household has a stash of garri and it is obvious that there is a huge market for garri in Nigeria.

Based on this huge market, many people have started to venture into the garri business. If you have plans to set up a garri production plant and want to know how to start a garri business, this article can give you the answer.

Garri processing process

How garri is produced?

Garri is produced from fresh cassava roots using washing and peeling, crushing, fermentation, dehydration, frying, and sieving. In the beginning, people do all the work by hand. Even now, there are lots of factories in Nigeria that use traditional ways and labor works to do garri production. It is ok to produce garri manually if the capacity is small. But if you want to build a standard factory and produce garri at a large scale, machines are necessary.

Garri production machine

What machines are needed for garri production?

After cassava roots are harvested from the field, a cleaning and washing machine is used to remove impurities. Then cassava peeling machine can remove the first and second layers of tubers. After that, put the peeled cassava into a grater machine for crushing. Then we can get cassava mash. Put cassava mash into bags for fermentation for 2-3 days. Then fermented cassava by a hydraulic presser machine. Following that, use a crusher machine to crush cassava into small pieces. Finally put cassava particles into the fryer machine and sieve coarse flour to get high quality garri.

Henan Jinrui company can supply complete machines for garri production from the beginning to the end. If you are interested, feel free to contact us any time.

How to start a garri business?

There are several steps on how to start a garri business.

1. Conduct a market survey

You should work on the sales market of the final garri. Where you should sell garri, how much will you sell for garri, and how do you sell your product? You can learn the experience from a business that already runs a garri factory.

2. Get a stable cassava supply

Whether you buy from local farmers or you harvest cassava from your farm, it is very important to have a stable and adequate supply of raw cassava roots. Apart from the supply quantity, you should also focus on tubers quality.

3. Prepare capital for building up a factory

This includes two parts: one is machinery cost, another is workshop construction cost, and the last is running cost for a garri production line. Besides, you should also keep some circulating funds.

4. Build up a factory

Normally equipment purchase and workshop construction are processed at the same time. Once the workshop is ready, the next is to put machines in place and do commissioning, and training workers. After all is finished, you can run the factory smoothly.

5. Sell garri

You can sell garri to family and friends, supply to supermarkets, or sell garri online.

Read also: What is the cost of a machine that can make cassava into garri?

The above is a brief introduction to how to start a garri business. If you have further questions, feel free to contact us for more details.