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Areas of investment :
Food crops - cassava. yam, sweet potatoes, corn, millet, soya beans, groundnuts,
Horticulture : vegetables, herbs, fruits, flowers, dry season vegetable production, etc
Plantation :Cashew, Mango,Pawpaw(papaya) Teak, oil palm, cocoa, rice, millet, moringa,
jatropha, pineapple, cashew, groundnut, orchards.
Livestock : poultry, hatchery business, selling of 6weeks old birds, quails, turkeys, guinea fowl,
Agric equipment - Agricultural equipment -tractor, sprinklers, fertilizer, chemicals, etc.
Food processing/cottage industry : foodstuff processing and packaging- flour, starch, beans, pepper, rice, catfish smoking business, frozen food-chicken, snails, grasscutter, quail meat, palm oil milling business, and oil production,cashew nuts processing and packaging, feed formulation for catfish,poultry, quails.
DEHYDRATION GUIDE FOR VEGETABLES AND FRUITS
The dehydration plant can be used for these or any other product, vegetable and fruit but for convenient and major vegetables Potato, Onion, Garlic, Pepper, pineapple, Mango, Okro,
Dehydration of vegetables products depends upon drying conditions and drying times.
Processed raw materials: Dehydrated vegetables are used as industrial raw materials by a wide range of food manufacturing industries. Main users are:
Soup industry: The major dehydrated vegetables including tomatoes, onions, potatoes, carrots, peas and spinach is used for the purpose.
Dry mixes – ready meal mixes, stuffing mixes, spice mix ,curry powder, and sauce mix.
Baby foods – dried baby foods.
Baker products – dehydrated potato products are used in the production of garnish pasties, pies and bread making.
Canned foods – dehydrated vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, and onions are used in canned stews and soups.
Processed meat – hamburgers, sausages and many delicatessen-type meat products.
The market sectors which have demand for dehydrated vegetables are as follows:
value addition food industries
2. Dried soup manufacturers.
2. Dried soup manufacturers.
1. Catering industry and Armed Forces Mess.
3. Other food manufactures.
4. Retail trade in dehydrated vegetables.
5. Garlic powder has utility in certain pharmaceuticals.
Local and International Market
Setting up small scale Dehydration venture is not out of reach of any serious diaspora, most of the equipment and tools can be purchased before you jet off to Africa, as soon as you are landing, within the next 6-10 weeks you must be producing products to sell to consumers or the industries that are waiting for your quality products.
Source for where you will be getting the regular supply or your raw materials, but you must have it at the back of your moind that you must have your own farm where you won't need to rely solely on others, and avoid fluctuation in price of raw materials, because some of these raw materials are seasonal.
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