Potato starch processing technology in Pakistan

In Pakistan, potato is the fourth largest crop in terms of yield, after wheat, rice and sugar cane. For farmers and consumers in Pakistan, potatoes bringing high yields and high returns for them.

According to the latest agricultural statistics (2017), Pakistan has a potato planting area of ​​approximately 170,300 hectares and a total production of approximately 4 million tons.

Even high in yield, the potato industry was not given enough attention in Pakistan. The potato processing industry in Pakistan develops not well, most of the potatoes in Pakistan are either used for household consumption or sold directly to the market, almost no further processing to get a higher economic benefit.

Potato

In fact, in addition to being food and vegetables, potatoes can be processed into starch, alcohol, and various potato foods, which can increase the market value of potatoes. Especially for potato starch, it has great demand at home and abroad due to its excellent property. However, the potato starch processing technology in Pakistan is still relatively backward, the potato deep processing industry is not mature enough, and few companies or investors to further process potatoes to obtain higher economic benefits. The potato starch industry is dominated by developed countries such as the European Union and North America.

Potato & potato starch

However, in the past 50 years, due to the rapid development of technology, the potato starch processing technology in Pakistan has undergone great changes. The new potato starch processing technology in Pakistan has not only greatly improved production efficiency, but also improves the quality of the produced potato starch and increase the starch yield. The following is potato starch processing technology in Pakistan:

First, use the professional cleaning and washing machine to clean the harvested potatoes, removing impurities such as stones, dust and dirt. Then using a rasper to grind potato into potato pulp. In addition to starch, the potato pulp also contains impurities such as fiber, protein, and cell liquid, therefore the subsequent process is the process of removing impurities from potato starch.

Potato cleaning, washing & crushing

The new potato starch processing technology in Pakistan uses centrifugal sieves and fine fiber sieves to remove fiber impurities from the potato pulp. The sand impurities are then removed by a sand remover. After that, the hydrocyclone system is used to remove proteins and other soluble and insoluble impurities. The wet starch from which impurities are removed requires further dehydration and drying to obtain high-quality potato starch.

Potato starch and impurities separation process

Potato starch dewatering commonly uses a vacuum filter to remove excess water. Generally, the moisture content of starch after dehydration is 38%-40%. Finally, the potato starch is dried into a dry starch with 14% water content by using a flash dryer.

Potato starch can be widely used in textile, petroleum extraction, feed and food industries. Especially in recent years, with the development of international and domestic food markets, the demand for high quality potato starch has soared. Therefore potato starch has a broad market and a promising market prospects. Advances in potato starch processing technology in Pakistan have also led to more people wanting to work on potato starch processing business, for these people, the high quality equipment is the key to success.

Doing Company has more than 30 years of experience in the design and production of starch equipment. Our potato starch processing technology is developed based on European technology, and our equipment is improved by engineers according to actual cases on the basis of importing European technology. So if you want to buy the potato starch processing machine, you are welcome to contact us and visit our factory.