Frozen chicken production business is a multi-million Naira industry. It is rightly so because many prefer to buy frozen chicken basically because its convenient to cook. You will not go through the stress of slaughtering the chicken, boiling water, peeling off the feathers and dividing the chicken into parts. Frozen chicken gives you the opportunity to choose the chicken parts you feel like eating.
For the purpose of convenience, the demand for frozen chicken is on the increase. Any who invests in the business can never incur loss. This article will tell you what you need to know before starting your frozen chicken production business. You will also be enlightened on how to market your frozen chicken production. Meanwhile, let us learn more on some of the health benefits of chicken.
For the purpose of convenience, the demand for frozen chicken is on the increase. Any who invests in the business can never incur loss. This article will tell you what you need to know before starting your frozen chicken production business. You will also be enlightened on how to market your frozen chicken production. Meanwhile, let us learn more on some of the health benefits of chicken.
Health Benefits of Eating Chicken
As we all know, chicken is a very good source of protein. Protein builds our muscles, skin, cartilage and blood vessels.
Many consumers attest to the fact that chicken soup or stew is more delicious than those prepared with beef or other sources of protein.
Chicken prevents bone loss, because it is rich in calcium. It is not difficult to acquire the calcium because most chicken bones are very soft and they can be easily chewed. Chewing chicken bones does not just give strong bones, it gives strong teeth too.
Chicken is rich in phosphorus that helps to aid strong teeth, bones, kidney as well as the liver.
Consuming higher rate of chicken increases our metabolic performance.
Eating more of chicken will keep blood vessels healthy thereby increasing your energy level.
Chicken is rich in vitamin-B that helps prevent cancer.
Chicken consumption improves healthy eyesight.
Consumption of chicken reduces skin problems, and it repairs dry and damaged skin.
Chicken increases appetite because it consists of zinc and this helps in maintaining a healthy appetite.
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Having known the importance of chicken to the body, let us now emphasize on how it can be produced locally. In my previous article titled 6 reasons you should invest in frozen chicken business, we discussed about the federal government placing a ban on the importation of frozen chicken.
Since there is ban on frozen chicken, it is better to produce it locally. The steps needed to start frozen chicken production are as follows:
There are two basic sources to get life chicken to process into frozen chicken and they are
- Rearing birds in your poultry farm, the type of birds for frozen chicken are either layers or broilers.
- You can buy birds from poultry farmers.
A lot of people prefer not to go through the stress of preparing life chicken and so this makes them have preference for frozen chicken, there are some start up requirements needed for the production of this business and they include
Initial Capital
To start frozen chicken as a medium scale investor, you will need a minimum of N2,000,000. Your initial capital will be invested in purchasing all equipment needed to run the business. Your source of finance can be loan from any bank, your personal savings, it could come from partners or any other source you can think of.
Start up Point
Your start up point might not necessarily be a shop, you can start this business from your home if you have the sufficient space. However if your home is not spacious enough, that means you will need to acquire another piece of land. This place should not be too far from your target market. To minimize your cost, you can acquire a plot of land in an under-developed environment. Depending on the part of Nigeria you are, you may not need to spend more than N300,000
To erect fence around your piece of land, you must at least buy 1,000 pieces of block. One costs N120, and so 1,000 will cost N120,000. You will need 30 bags of cement to erect the fence. This will cost N49,500. Set aside N100,000 for sharp sand and cost of labour. You will also need N200,000 for mounting gate and doing other miscellaneous. Construct a less expensive shed or better still construct a standard room on your piece of land. This will serve to house your freezers.
Equipment
There are some basic equipment needed to run this business. Having achieved a standard start up point, it is
important to purchase your working tools. These are as follows:
Deep freezers
Generator
Knives and Axes
Bowls and Basins
Sealing Machine
Automatic weighing scale
Lovely polythene bags for packaging
Tables for cutting
Chairs
Heat source (stove or heater)
Soap
Hand Towels
Hire staff
In this type of business, you can not work alone. You will have to hire staff, to make your production and distribution faster.There should be different sections in your factory, the slaughtering and feather removal section, dividing section, packaging section and the distribution section. The sectioning depends on how large your production is. In hiring staff, make sure you hire dedicated staff and make sure you treat them right by paying their salary as at when due. This will make them always happy and more dedicated to their jobs.
Birds
There are two types of birds that can be used for frozen chicken, and these are broilers, and old layers. So if you want to buy your birds from a farm you know what type to source for, and if you are going to rear it on your own farm, you should take note of the type to invest on.
Getting Started
You have your equipment ready, you know what type of birds to source for, your space is available, the next step is starting the business. Interestingly, once the birds have been slaughtered, all the parts are useful.
We have discussed about the production process of this business, let us go further to branding, and selling aspect. After your production, there are some steps to consider to make your products acceptable to the public and they are as follows
Create a business name
Frozen chicken is a consumable product and so you must create a sweet name. It must be simple and short, easy to pronounce. The more appealing your name sounds, the better for your business.
Register with NAFDAC
You will have to register your business with the national agency for food and drug administration and control. This body is involved in regulating and controlling the manufacture, importation, exportation,advertisement and distribution, sale and use of food, drug, cosmetics.To know more about this agency,visit them on www.nafdac.com. you will get a detailed information about this body.
Locate Your Target Market
Where and how you intend to sell your production matters a lot, so locating a target market is very important. Your target should basically be those shops that are involved in buying and selling of frozen foods, hotels, restaurants, institutions with catering facility, fast food owners, party planners/host. This will definitely help you increase your production process.
Branding
There is more to branding than just creating a unique name, it also involves creating unique image for your product. The image must describe your product and this simply means that your product must be meaningful. Your product name and image will automatically advertise your product if there is consistency. You can develop strategies on how you can advertise your product, or better still use the existing advertising media like online, or offline, advertisement. Tell family, friends and neighbours about your product. Remember, advertising your product goes a long way in promoting your business.
Retail selling
As a producer of frozen chicken, you can as well sell in retail, to achieve this means you need to have a shop, it could be in a residential environment or market environment where you know that people in that environment will not depend on their locally reared chicken before they can eat one. What we mean invariably is that you should locate a strategic area and a high profile one. Your shop must be easily accessible for your potential and existing customers to locate you.
Quality Control
This aspect is an essential one in frozen chicken processing, its purpose is mainly to protect consumers from dangers and to ensure quality service for what they pay for. QC will ensure that the laws guiding chicken production process are duly followed.
Potential Profit
This business is a profitable one no doubt about that. Once you or your staff have gone through the process of washing and dividing into parts, chicken heads, necks, legs, laps, wings, chest, gizzard are sold separately,and the minimum amount a kilogram is sold at N700, this price can increase during festive period because the demand will be higher.
Invest in this business today and realise the potential profit in it. Feel free to ask questions we will gladly respond. Also share your success story with us. Wish you all the best.
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Thank you so much for this post..Bin willingly to go into this business in a long while but I didn't know how to go abt it.Pls how can I reach you for further information I might be needing on this.God bless u so much!
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