Flesh foods Nigeria limited Processing orange flesh sweet potato to produce premium quality snacks

The project involves expanding an orange flesh sweet potato manufacturing unit in Kano State which will produce premium quality potato chips competing with few existing brand all the processing equipment are semi-automatic machinery with capacity of 150kg per hour.potato chips stand a good chance in snacks market,as they are few industry producing Orange flesh sweet potato.Chips processing is rewarding, lucrative and remunerative investment to meet the domestic market and export.
A single beat of orange flesh sweet potato chips provides B -carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, OFSP are now considered as an important bio-fortified crop in many developing countries in alleviating vitamin A deficiency (VAD)and malnutrition in women and children. In Africa 6%of child death under the age of 5years is attributed to VAD.exact impact assessment show that The promotion of »OFSP» will benefit More then 50 million children under the age of 5years in Nigeria and Ghana (University of Ghana et al