How to process small scale cassava flour?

Cassava is popular in Eastern African & West Africa,it’s so easy to grow and plant it,and simple to harvest,and also drought tolerant.and all part of cassava is valuable. Cassava roots can be cooked or eaten,and also can be produce garri, high-quality of flour and starch,fufu and so onCassava flour is gluten-free and it is used in food preparations.Cassava flour can be paired with other types of flours and then used for baking cookies, biscuits etc.

 

How to process the small scale cassava flour? Please allow me to explain it step by step,

 

Step 1: Clean to eradicate excess dirt and sands.

There is two ways to clean the  dirt and sands, one way by manual ,another way by mechanical,we used dry sieve for clean the sand and mud.

 

Step 2: washing fresh cassava roots

Feeding water into paddle washing machine to wash it.

 

Step 3: peeling fresh cassava roots

Peeled the cassava roots by cassava peeler , Doing Company adopts sander paper peeler for that.

 

Step 4: grinding the fresh cassava into mash

Grinding the fresh cassava roots into mash by grater or rapser mill, small scale use the grater, the bigger scale capacity used the rasper mill.

 

Step 5: De-watering cassava mash

Transfer to the crushed cassava mash into dewater press,it’s for removing water. After dewater, moisture of wet mash is almost 40%.

 

Step :6 feeding wet cassava mash into flash dryer

Transfer the cassava mash into the drying system for drying cassava flour. After dry cassava flour,the moisture is almost 14%.

 

Step 7: sieving cassava flour

Using vibration sieve for separating fiber and flour.

 

Step 8: packing cassava flour flour by packer

There is different scale of packing machine,such as

1) 1kg-5kg packing machine

2) 500g-1000g automatic packing machine

3) 25-50kg automatic packing machine

You can choose it depends on your local requirement of cassava flour ‘s marketing

 

Generally ,small scale cassava flour production line is reasonable business,that’s a good choice in Africa. If you want to engage in agricultural business, you can choose cassava flour project. Doing group is not only just focus on cassava flour ,we also supply the equipment of cassava starch & Garri. If want to do it,please contact us to get more details.