How To Make Money In Nigeria Repackaging and Selling Food Items

Food has always been an indispensable tool to human existence right from the time man was born. This explains why the Agricultural sector is growing in leaps and bounds. Food repackaging business is one business you can start on a small scale and become a millionaire with good marketing plan and discipline.

What is food repackaging business? Food repackaging is the process of getting foodstuff in larger quantities and bagging them in your own way, that in smaller bags with business name on it making you the producer of the foodstuff involved.

If you look around you, you will see that companies operating food business are making it big time in this industry as they are going into new lines of food productions on a frequent basis and the truth here is that you can compete with this big names by doing better than them on a low-key and shoe string budget. This is possible because people must always eat whether there is money or not.

Examples of foods you can buy in larger quantities and repackage with your own brands are Rice, beans, crayfish (grounded), pepper (grounded), palm oil, corn flour, wheat, yam flour, plantain flour, bean flour, Egusi, cashew nuts, groundnuts, ginger (grounded), garlic(grounded), cassava flour, garri and so on.

Like every other business there are things you must put in place to kick start your business which is why you must draw up a plan on getting your food repackaging business started. Things you need to get your food repackaging business started are as follows

Space: You will need a room, shop or somewhere to operate from. It must be clean and well ventilated.

Repackaging equipment: It is not advisable to repackage with your hands as it's unhygienic. So you will need to get a repackaging machine in place, you must avoid body contact with the food item being repackaged. Your repackaging machine enables you to work faster by repackaging more of your products.

The Repackaging Equipment are i. Dispenser, ii. Industrial sealing machine with table (customized), iii. Special nylon (branded) pack made strictly for this type of business iv. Weighing scale v. Chairs vi. Cartons or wooden boxes to store packaged products vii. Generator (2kva) needed to power sealing machines.

How The Repackaging Dispenser Machine Works (Production Process)

Step 1. The food item, like Garri, is poured into the fabricated dispenser (made of mild steel).

Step 2. There is a lever where you press and a mechanism will release the poured content into the nylon bag via the opening from the dispenser.

Step 3. After bagging, you put the item on a weighing scale to ensure that the right measure meant is what is contained in the pack.

Step. 4 Once this is done, then you go straight to sealing and you are set for the market.

For products like palm oil, grounded crayfish, melon(egusi), grounded garlic or ginger you need rubber plates or gallons branded in your own business name to package them. Food repackaging is one business you can start in Nigeria.

Places in Nigeria to source for foods are the northern Nigeria markets like the dawanu market of Kano, the Birnin-Kudu market of Jigawa state this is where you source for foodstuff like Rice, beans, then the southern part of Nigeria for foodstuff like garri, palm oil, cray fish and so on. Food items are gotten from different farms in Nigeria to cities like Lagos and are sold cheap. Some of the Sunday markets include: Ogba in Ikeja, Shomolu. Other markets where you can get food items cheap are Mile12, Oyingbo, Oto, Mushin etc. Also, if you have access to farmers in the villages, you can source your products cheaper.

This is one business you can start and become a millionaire with a good business plan and a workable marketing strategy.

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