charcoal Business is an agribusiness that entails production, processing, packaging and marketing to other countries in Africa, Europe, Asian and North America. Charcoal production is complex but it is a money spinner for investors and source of energy and other industries usage for buyers

Charcoal can be majorly found in iseyin, Saki and other interior part of Oyo state, Benue state and Kwara state of Nigeria. It is produced by burning wood products of different species. Mostly, the production is usually carried out in the core forest areas. After the burning processing, the charcoals are allowed to cool and they bag them in different grades and sizes according to industry specifications.

These grades can be finger charcoals, restaurant charcoal, dust or sweet-liked charcoal and the normal-sized processed type. Our company, Agromerchant, at www.agromerchant.com supplies any grade or specification you want and we supervise the processing, bagging, pouring into container, haulage and other logistics to ensure quality standard.

When you contact us for your agro commodities exportation and supply, we give you the best standard and price

The value chain in charcoal business is large and this makes it one industry in the agribusiness sector that boost employment generation and wealth creation for all players in the industry, although, charcoal business socio-economic impacts are numerous, it urgently requires a succession plan of afforestation and re-planting of crop trees and woody trees to sustain the environment and avert climate change which might occur in the nearest future due to consistent logging of wood for charcoal processing, furniture-making, wood chips and other wood conversion purposes.

To ensure good quality of charcoal, it must be ensured that some proper precautions and criteria are meant;
•Low moisture content, that is, moisture content must be below 6%. This indicates total dryness of charcoal.
• Woods must be thoroughly burnt to avoid unburnt wood hiding inside the charcoal already bagged.
• During loading, rains must be watched out for to avoid wet charcoa.
• Charcoal stones and dusts must be removed to ensure clean charcoal is obtained.
• Bagging of charcoal must be done according to specifications which can be done by scaling.
• Restaurant charcoals must be well processed than the normal charcoal.
• Close inspection and monitoring must be done to ascertain the required numbers of bags and tonnages. Likewise, monitoring and supervision ensure that quality products are loaded.
• After loading, it must be ensure that seal must be used to key the container or truck.
• Container number, seal number and truck plate numbers must be inputted into the receipt and the original copy must be given to the driver for proper processing and offloading of container at the port.
• Proper documentation and legal framework must be adhere strictly with.

Calculations of Tonnages;

Ensuring standards, 25 bags must be equal to one ton in range at 40kg per bag on scaling (standard scales). Therefore, to ensure 23 tonnes or 23,000kg and above per truck, minimum of 575 bags must be loaded.

Agromerchant plays a vital role in ensuring sourcing, supervision and loading of company specified charcoal. At Agromerchant, we handles the logistics and supplying of quality charcoal with industry specification to any part of the world. Do business with us to cater for your charcoal and other agro-produce exportation.

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