How to start a lucrative Onion Powder Production Business in
Nigeria
Onion (Allium cepa) is a vegetable crop grown almost all over
the world. It is grown mainly for its bulb, which is used in
every home, almost daily. It is rarely used as a sole dish or in
large quantities. It’s main use lies in flavouring and seasoning
of a wide variety of dishes. Its popularity is due to it’s
aromatic, volatile oil, the allyl-prophl sulphide which imports
a cherished flavour to food.
As a constituent of a meal, both the green leaves and bulbs can
be eaten raw, cooked or flood, or in soups and salads. Onion
also has an important role as a medicinal herb in many
communities, and is claimed to minimize high blood pressure and
other heart diseases due to it’s favourable action on the
elasticity of blood vessels. As an item of world trade, onion
ranks second in importance after tomatoes among the vegetables.
Onion
is grown widely during the wet and dry seasons. However yields
are much higher during the dry season because of fewer
incidences of pests and diseases. Prices of onion tend to
oxalate during the dry season before harvest begins, due largely
to the inability of the farmers to store the highly perishable
crop.
Onion powder is used chiefly as a constituent in various food
products i.e. this is sold to manufacturing concerns as a
industrial raw material, hotels, restaurants, caterers and
domestic consumption. Onion powder has also good export market.
Therefore, has a very good scope for new entrants.
The
production capacity of the proposed business is twelve (12) tons
for onion powder per day of three (3) shifts of eight (8) hours
each working at 80% of the installed capacity in the first,
second, third, fourth and fifth year of operations respectively.
Onion powder is used chiefly as a constituent in various food
products i.e. this is sold to manufacturing concerns as a
industrial raw material, hotels, restaurants, caterers and
domestic consumption. Onion powder has also good export market.
Therefore, has a very good scope for new entrants.
Onions are perishable commodity and cannot be stored for a long
time after harvest in a ordinary conditions. Onion can be
processed into a wide variety of products. Minimally processed
ready to use or ready to cook fresh onions, onion paste,
dehydrated onion flakes, onion powder, onion oil, onion vinegar,
onion sauce, pickled onion, onion wine and beverage etc. The
demand for the processed products is increasing day by day due
to its convenience to handle and use.
Onion powder is used chiefly as a constituent in various food
products i.e. this is sold to manufacturing concerns as a
industrial raw material, hotels, restaurants, caterers and
domestic consumption. Onion powder has also good export market.
Therefore, has a very good scope for new entrants.
The
production plant comprises of Onion Peeler, Water Filter,
Crusher, Evaporator/ Steam Cooker, Pasteurizer, Weighing
Balance, Conveyor, Mixer, Generator, Project Vehicle and Wood
Pallets.
The
production capacity of the proposed plant is five hundred (500)
kilogramme per day and would operate a single shift of eight (8)
hours each at ninety percent (90%) of installed capacity for
three hundred (300) working day.
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