How to make garri in small scale？

Garri is a daily consumed food in modt of African countries, like Nigeria, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Benin, Togo and in Ghana. Due to its popularity, it is mostly produced in small scale by small farmers. Though most of them can produce garri by themselves, but due to their lack of awareness of equipment processing, garri processing in small scale always has high waste. So how to make garri in small scale can gain more garri ?

Cassava

How to make garri in small scale ?

Garri is made from cassava by cassava washing, grating, fermentation, dehydrating and drying. Small scale garri processing can combine manual processing with equipment processing.

Cleaning & washing: For small scale garri making, cleaning and washing can be done by hand. This process requires to wash cassava clean without residue impurities.

Manual peeling

Peeling: This can be done by manual or equipment, manual peeling requires large number of labors while equipment peeling requires more cost. Due to manual peeling waste much time, if budgets allows, cassava peeler can be adopted to save manpower and processing time.

Grating: This process determines the garri yield, therefore it is necessary to use equipment. Cassava grater is the special machine for grating cassava. High efficient cassava grater can produce more garri, it is the most worth investment in the whole production line.

Cassava grater

Fermentation: No need machine, jut pack grated garri into a place for a few days. (2 days or so)

Dehydrating: This can be finished by simple tools, for example, small farmers can use wood to press garri by self-made presser to dewater garri.

Manual frying

Frying: Frying can also be done by hand or garri fryer. Garri fryer can stir garri evenly and it is made of stainless steel, can guarantee the quality of garri. For small scale garri making, self-made wok can also works. But its quality is inferior.

The above is the process of how to make garri in small scale. In the whole process, cassava grater is required for garri processing, cassava peeler, garri fryer is recommend for using, and other cassava cleaning machine, washing machine, dewatering machine can be ordered according to budgets.