You require some measure of experience and skill in order to start and continue to operate a meat shop successfully.
This line of business is a complete industry on its own. It enables you provide the community with well cut meat and the benefit of your expertise.
Some supermarket deli counters are almost taking over this business, but no one can ever compare the expertise of these supermarkets with what obtains in a regular meat shop, where top level expertise and experience are obtainable.
Meat shops are still very popular and many individuals in need of meat still know it is better to patronize the shops than patronizing those supermarkets.
If you must be successful in this business, you must have the passion for it. Passion alone is however not enough; you must also have the required knowledge.
Aside the above requirements, you equally require real sound business sense that will enable you carve a niche for yourself and create your own business brand out of nothing in a well populated industry.
You must be ready to base your business on certain qualities in order to prosper.
What are the qualities you need to posses in order to start off this business and carry it through successfully? Some of them are pointed out below:
Deep interest in the food supply industry.
Good knowledge about various cuts of meat and meat processing.
Interest in providing expert and personable services.
Attentiveness to the transport of the animals from the field to the cutting table and
Deep passion to providing high quality meat.
Why do you need to be passionate about this business? This is because it is a rather messy business and only passion will make you stick to the job day to day. Passion is one quality no one can fake; it is either genuine or not there at all.
Sam professional butcher Nigeria tel.+2348020685390 email smoronfade@yahoo.com

I love the fact that southerners are getting involved in the meat value chain.

The key is to make it neat and clean as possible, which would go a long way to make it more attractive compare to those insect petched ones you see in the local market

what's the cost of going into this business in a small scale level

sulaimon22:
what's the cost of going into this business in a small scale level

Or better can people come together and operate in the same location but independently