Sustainability of Garri Processing: A Case Study of Ogun State, Nigeria

Abstract Garri is one of the most developed and convenient staple food commodities been produced from cassava in West Africa. To select the best method, garri production technology has been produced at different levels, this includes grating, fermentation, and dewatering. Producer of garri and edible starch is faced with the problem of the product price, limited information, and inadequate capital, lack of equipment, poor road, inadequate labour and water supply, long waiting time during grating, and some stages of processing. Limitation experienced by cassava processor includes lack of capital, inadequate power supply, the short lifespan of raw cassava tuber, long fermentation process, high cost of transportation, unstable price of garri. Result obtained from the constraints limiting garri processing in owode-yewa of Ogun state revealed that the short life span of raw cassava tubers is the most severe with 98%. This rating was followed by the unstable price of garri with 92%, long fermentation process with 67%, high transportation cost of inputs with 63%, while the lowest is the lack of access to information with an 8% plant layout. This study was able to provide scheduling operation of garri processing, the process of operation, maintenance of operation, plant layout, and come up with results that can be useful for other processing units in other countries.