WHEN YOU ARE PROCURING A MECHANICAL GARRI FRYING MACHINE...

Having a Mechanical Frying Machine is a major breakthrough in Garri Processing business.

# It takes away 18-23% off your frying cost.

# It reduces your frying operation time by 50-60%.

# It relieves you of the headache of looking for professional manual fryers especially when you are doing large production.

Mechanical Garri Frying Machine comes with a lot of advantages especially for a commercial processor targeting large scale output. Thanks to our Engineers and local fabricators who have have been able to come up with affordable options of this machines that competes and even many times perform better than those expensive ones being imported from Indian and China.

It however saddened my heart when I come across processors who have struggled to buy the machine and later abandoned it for manual frying because the machine did not function as promised or as expected. I have seen many machines even in big factories that are now used as manual fryers.

One of the problems common with these faulty machines is when they ended up turning the product to flour instead of garri. This is simply because many fabricators/Engineers did not study and fully understand principles behind Garri Frying Operation before going into its manufacturing.

That operation that you see many of those local women perform with dexterity in a so simple manner has its underlying expertise requirement. It is in understanding this process in full only would an Engineer/Fabricator be able to come up with a full functional machine that will deliver.

Garrification; which is the technical name given to the Garri frying as a unit operation involves heating up the moist pulverized flour into cooking (this brings about mild gelatinization and caramelization) and then allowing it to dry. It involves alternation of heat supply from low-high and high-low with their varying speed of frying. This fit, many professional local fryers achieve with utmost simplicity due to their years of experience.

Achieving this fit by the Engineers/fabricators involves playing around the diameter of the pan vis-a-vis the set speed of the rotating gears. Unfortunately, many of them have not done wonderfully enough on this.

So, when you intend to procure your Mechanical Fryer, make sure you patronize only suppliers with good history. This will save you from frustration and money loss that often come with bad decision.

Most importantly, ask your fabricator to give you contact of his previous customers. Go and meet those processors who had earlier procure machines from such fabricator. Ask them critical questions. See the machine working. Check the quality of the machine output. Check it's energy consumptions. Quantify the consumption against yield. Then compare with manual to know which is more economical. We all know how costly diesel is at the moment.

Is the machine operations economical?

Electricity supply at most farm areas where cassava supply are in abundance is very uncommon. And these are the places desirable to site garri processing factories to ensure access to affordable cassava tuber. The next option in such cases is to depend on diesel generator, especially when the mechanical fryer is constructed with electric motor. In most cases, the quantity output of such machine powered with diesel generator would not be commensurate the operational cost due to high cost of diesel. Such production will eventually be at a loss despite using a mechanical fryer.

Investigations have established that diesel generator comprising a diesel engine 1115 or 1130 and 25kva or 30kva alternator can be used to power up to three mechanical fryers. And the cost of the diesel used could be shared on the output of the three fryers, against only one in the other case. This generator cost around N900,000, which many investor cannot afford to buy or even the additional fryers that help share the cost.

The other alternative is usage of mechanical fryer powered by petrol engine. This is the option many people are going for at the moment. It is highly economical in terms of output quantity versus operational cost. The machine cost around N700,000.

All I'm saying in essence is that effectiveness and efficiency are key factors to be considered when you are to procure a mechanical fryer.

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Kazeem Lamidi
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