crazy selling sunflower cooking oil refinery plant in zambia
- Usage: oil refinery plant
- Type: edible oil refining machine south africa
- Automatic Grade: Automatic
- Production Capacity: 50T/D
- Model Number: NF25
- Voltage: 380V/440v
- Power(W): 20-50KW
- Weight: depond on capacity
- Certification: ISO9001/BV/CE
- Main export countries: Asia,Africa,Latin American,Malaysia...
- Packaging: Glass Container,Plastic Container
- Grade: first Grade
- refined oil: 1st grade sunflower oil
- oil content: 35%-48%
- fatty: 40~60.7
- protein: 20~37.2
- phosphlipid: 1.25~1.75
- saccharides: 5~15
- edible oil refining type: continuous
Zambia: Farmer boosts income by processing oil from sunflower
Mrs Kamuwikeni can sell a 25-kg bag of sunflower for 150 Zambia Kwacha ($6.60 US). Or she can process that bag into 10 litres of cooking oil and sell it for 430 Kwacha ($19 US). It’s seven o’clock in the morning and Naomi Kamuwikeni is quickly walking to the oil expeller at Gondar market. She is carrying sunflowers to process into oil.
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- How much does Naomi kamuwikeni sell a bag of sunflower?
- Mrs Kamuwikeni can sell a 25-kg bag of sunflower for 150 Zambia Kwacha ($6.60 US). Or she can process that bag into 10 litres of cooking oil and sell it for 430 Kwacha ($19 US). It¡¯s seven o¡¯clock in the morning and Naomi Kamuwikeni is quickly walking to the oil expeller at Gondar market. She is carrying sunflowers to process into oil.
- How much is a bag of sunflower worth in Zambia?
- Most farmers prefer to sell their sunflower as seeds and grain rather than process it because they receive sales income immediately. But now that Mrs. Kamuwikeni is adding value to her sunflower harvest, she is making twice the money she used to make. A bag of sunflower weighing 25 kilograms is sold at 150 Zambia Kwacha (about $6.60 US).
- Can mmmz make sunflower oil more widely available in Zambia?
- The company will buy all sunflower produced by contracted out-growers. MMMZ wants to make sunflower oil more widely available in Zambia through this project. Sunflower oil is more nutritious than other edible oils and if processed from locally produced seed can be sold at prices which are affordable to low-income consumers.
- Who sells edible oil in Zambia?
- They hold about 45% of the Zambian edible oil market. MMMZ has their own processing plant with an oilseed crusher (200,000MT/annum capacity) and an edible oil refinery (140,000MT/annum capacity). They sell refined oil to wholesalers and the hotel industry, big retailers and also offer oil through dispensers via smaller outlets.
