Cassava flour processing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - its traditional ways and new trends

Cassava is an important crop in the Congo. Whether it is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (also called Congo Kinshasa) or the Republic of Congo (also known as Congo Brazzaville), cassava is grown in large quantities. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second largest producer of cassava in Africa after Nigeria. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, processing cassava into cassava flour or fufu is very popular and is commonly to as people's daily food.

Cassava in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

But traditionally, people generally produce cassava flour by hand, which is not only tedious but also time consuming. It usually takes two weeks to make cassava flour by using traditional processing techniques.

After harvesting, farmers peel and clean the cassava, then people need to mash the cassava by hand, and then dry it in the sun to make cassava flour. The cassava flour produced in this way is generally low in quality and is generally used for home consumption.

Traditional cassava flour processing method

But now, with the increase of market demand and the development and progress of technology, the use of advanced equipment to process cassava flour has become a new trend.

Modern cassava flour processing includes washing & peeling, crushing, desanding, dewatering, drying, sieving, and packaging. The whole process from washing to final dry cassava flour takes less than an hour, which has the features of large production scale, strong processing capacity, high degree of automation, mature process. What's more, compared with manual processing, the cassava flour produced by modern cassava flour processing machine is whiter, drier, finer and more hygienic. The high-quality cassava flour produced can not only be used for home use, but also sold to supermarkets and bakeries or exported to other countries.

Modern cassava flour processing equipment

Although the current cassava flour processing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is still mainly small-scale manual processing, and only a small number of capable investors have adopted modern cassava flour processing technology, modern mechanized cassava flour processing still has great potential and will gradually replace the traditional way.

Especially in recent years, due to the increasing application of cassava flour in the food field, and the government encouraging people to use high-quality cassava flour instead of wheat flour to produce bread, the demand for high-quality cassava flour has increased rapidly. Therefore, more and more people want to build a modern cassava flour processing plant to make a profit. It is no doubt that, in the future, there will be more and more modern cassava flour production plants built in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Modern cassava flour processing plant

So now is the best time to invest in a modern cassava flour processing plant in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, you can easily take the market share and gain profit. It is worth telling you that China Henan Doing Company has mastered the mature technology of production and manufacturing of a full set of cassava flour processing machines, and the same set of machines can produce both cassava flour and fufu flour, just opening or closing the fermentation device.

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