5 Steps to Starting a small-scale Maize Milling Business

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Charl Marais | February 3,

Africa's growing population means more and more demand for affordable staple foods. Small-scale maize milling is a profitable business opportunity for many entrepreneurs. Small maize milling businesses can grow into large commercial mills fast, supplying not only locally but also regionally.

Once you've raised capital to invest in a small-scale milling business, you need a well-considered business plan before you can begin milling maize into profitable maize meal.

Here are five tips to getting your small-scale maize milling business started:

1. FIND THE RIGHT LOCATION

Choosing your location and the type of building you will use for your maize milling business is very important. If your premises are in the wrong area or not easily accessible, your business will struggle to take off. When choosing a site, consider your basic needs like water and power, plus the size of your building and storage requirements. You may need to think about silos to store raw maize and final product. Consider your security as well, and accessibility for suppliers and deliveries. Before you mill your first batch of maize, you will need to ensure your building follows local quality and safety standards.

2. IDENTIFY YOUR SUPPLIERS

Once you have researched your market and understood what the demand is, you need to identify your suppliers. Will you grow and supply the maize, or will you buy it from other maize growers? If you plan to purchase maize from other sources, do your homework and find a reliable and sustainable supplier. Avoid unforeseen losses or misunderstandings by getting your supplier to sign a contract with you.

3. CHOOSE THE CORRECT MILLING MACHINE

Before you can begin marketing and offering a maize meal product, you need to understand what your capacity will be. Your milling machine will determine the quality and quantity of the product you will be selling. Roff has a variety of affordable, high-quality milling machines designed with the small-scale maize milling businesses in mind. Read more about our all-in-one competitively priced SP-1 milling machine at the bottom of this article.

4. REGISTER YOUR BUSINESS

You need to register your business with the relevant authority in your country before it can operate fully under the law. During this process, you will need to choose a name for your business and product.

5. MARKET AND LAUNCH YOUR PRODUCT

Understanding your consumers will determine how your product is packaged and marketed. Are you selling wholesale, or will you be retailing directly to the consumer? Do you need to advertise, or have you locked off a steady clientele in advance? Knowing this will also determine what kind of delivery transport you need and how much you should budget for it.

THE SP-1 MILLING MACHINE FOR THE SMALL-SCALE MILLING BUSINESS

Roff's SP-1 milling machine is a flexible and upgradeable micro maize milling machine designed for start-up and small maize milling entrepreneurs. However, it has everything you need to start a high-performance milling business.

For more than 30 years Roff has been helping small to medium-sized milling businesses achieve success with the SP-1. During this time, we've created an easy to operate mill that produces high-quality maize meal while giving you the potential for seamless expansion as your business grows.

Simplified to reduce the upfront investment costs, the SP-1 offers the highest extraction rates with the lowest overheads per ton of maize meal produced.
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Maize milling plant is a very important industrial for Africa Client, maize milling plant can milling the maize to flour,meals,grits.

Fufu (variants of the name include foofoo, fufuo, foufou) is a staple food, common in many countries in Africa,A similar staple in the African Great Lakes region is ugali. It is usually made from maize flour (masa), and is also eaten in Southern Africa. The name ugali is used to refer to the dish in Kenya and Tanzania. Closely related staples are caalled nshima in Zambia, nsima in Malawi, sadza in Zimbabwe, pap in South Africa, posho in Uganda, luku, fufu, nshima, moteke, semoule, ugali and bugari in Republic of the Congo and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and phaletshe in Botswana Uganda.

Nutritionally, 100 g dry weight fufu contains 2 g of protein, 0.1 g of fat and 84 g of carbohydrate. There are 267 kcal of food energy in a 100 g serving made up with water.It is very low in cholesterol. It is very rich in potassium, and it is commonly prescribed by doctors for people who have low level of potassium in their blood.

If you are in Zambia,Zimbabwe,Malawi, South Africa,Uganda,Botswana,Congo,Kenya,etc Africa Countries,and if you want to start a maize milling plant, you need to check the market request,check the maize flour price,then make the decision.

How to Calculate the profit of the maize milling plant processing?

There is some price need to know before start maize milling plant:

maize 100kg price 

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Water unit price 

Electricity unit price

The packing bag cost 

Labour cost 

Workshop rental 

The fortify additive 

After maize milling plant processing, need to know the following:

maize flour price 

Maize bran price 

transportation cost

When we calculate the profit:

Maize flour +maize bran -transportation -packing bag-fortify additive-workshop rental-labour-water-electricity-maize 

Normally the profit is around 20USD-100USD/Ton, except there is some special condition. 

As we know the maize flour is daily consumption food, so not request high profit,at the beginning should be win by the quantity, and sell as more as possible,cover more market, and let the people know your maize milling plant is high quality, can produce high quality maize meal,maize flour, and let people know that your flour quality is good, and the price is very reasonable.And also do some small gift for the client, when in Christmas or New year, like some small rulers,Pencil case,Stickers to make the promotion of the maize flour,or maize meal. If can operating well, normally November,December,January is the good season for sell. Some times these three month can get very high profit.

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