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Pig farming is not only a profitable business but also a very popular and lucrative business. Pig is widely used to eat and pork. But it is not an easy tusk to farming. It takes a lot of time and money to make a profitable pig farm. To make a perfect pig farm everybody needs to follow some methods, which are described below.

On Pasture

Firstly, it is very necessary to have a large area with a lot of grass and soil. Then it also needs a large fence so that the pigs can roam too far off easily and can feel comfort. But the farmers should always conscious about the structure of the fence. Farmers should use very strong wood and thick corner poles because the adult pigs become very strong and they can try to destroy the fence. As pigs are notorious diggers, farmers should dig deeply into the ground for poles. Thus farmers can farm pigs on the pasture.

On a Barn or Hut

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Pig farming in a barn is generally easy. Farmers should use concrete to make a barn for pig farming. It is very necessary to keep the pigs inside the farm. Farmers should make the floor slope so that the water can be used to clean the barn easily. Farmers should separate the feeding area to the rest area for cleaning it easily. At least 10 feet deep and 10 feet wide area is perfect for every two pigs. The rest area should be half the size of the feeding area with a pool where they can bath and the pool should be at least 5 feet.

You should take care the pigs in the barn in the following ways:

• Depending on number of pigs farmers should clean pens naturally twice in a week.
• It is very important to keep feeder full.
• Mud hole filled with water in outside pen.
• A lot of bedding is necessary in corner but not entire pen.

Feeding

Pig should be fed 18% crude protein. Farmers should not feed pig table scraps and garbage. For this farmers may be fall in danger. To farming, the pig should give the lettuce and other vegetables, but meat products are not appropriate. If the farmers give meat products the pig will put on too much fat and it will decrease the profit. Pig should feed 10-15 pounds of feed a day when it will 130 pounds heavier. To make a pig in a perfect weight, farmers should feed ½ cup of corn oil 2 times each day mixed with 1 egg 2 times each day and ½ cup of milk re placer powder twice a day,1 table spoon corn oil is also necessary. Proper and sufficient feeding brings success in pig farming.

Housing

To consider proper environment situation is very important to farming pig successfully. To farm pig farmers should make a pollution free environment. The pig industry needs a particular location. Without careful management of waste products, it may be very dangerous problem for child pig. It is a great and profitable process to make manure from the disposal of the pigs. It is very useful for agriculture. The environment of the outside and inside should protect all times because it is very essential to farming pigs. Inside environment is important for their health. The farming area should be made clean and dry. During the cold month, a heat lamp must be put and kept out of the north wind and south winds. Farmers should use straw as bedding during the winter. During summer season, it is very need that the pig has a place to lay in mud in the pen. If the pigs sweat or stay in a dry environment pigs will lose 5-10 pounds a day. So, always farmers should conscious about the pig’s health and always try not to sweat them. To sell pigs and to get a lot of money pigs should reach at least 220-295 pounds of weight.

Farmers should conscious about pigs’ health. So medical attention is essential.

diseases

• Farmers should be aware about the symptoms of diseases. Like no interest in food, diarrhea, eye discharge, excessive coughing, hernia, dry skin and irregular spots on skin, excessively long hair, back bone showing etc.
• If the pig has diarrhea, farmers should call veterinarian and treat it carefully. Without proper treat pigs can be dehydrated and lost its weights quickly. This situation can also lead to death.
• If the pigs are coughing it is very essential to contact with veterinarian as soon as possible.
• Pigs should not give antibiotics 21-45 days before slaughter date.
• Pigs must be wormed with safe guard swine wormier or Algard monthly to kill whip.

Pig farming is very attractive and profitable business. To farm pig successfully farmer needs training and learn more things about farming. As pigs meet up the farmers economic need, it is becoming an enjoyable business day by day. To farm pigs effectively farmers should make perfect shelter for pigs. They should give proper food and proper medical protection. Without rearing pigs properly, it is not possible to earn a large number of money. So, to earn money farmers should always careful about their pigs.Though pig farming is not an easy task but it is very attractive business. To make a large farm farmers have to work a lot. Farmers have to invest huge money for farming. If any farmer follows the above instruction, then he will be surely success.

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POULTRY FARMING

Poultry farming means ‘raising various types of domestic birds commercially for the purpose of meat, eggs and feather production’. The most common and widely raised poultry birds are chicken. About 5k million chickens are being raised every year as a source of food (both meat and eggs of chicken). The chickens which are raised for eggs are called layer chicken, and the chickens which are raised for their meat production are called broiler chickens. The UK and USA consume more meat and eggs of chicken than other countries of the world. On an average the UK alone consumes more than 29 million chicken eggs everyday. However, in a word commercial poultry farming is very necessary to meet up the demand of animal nutrition (eggs and meat). Commercial poultry farming is also very profitable. And commercial poultry farming business is one of the traditional business ventures. Here we are describing more about the advantages of poultry farming business and the steps for running this business.

Benefits of Poultry Farming
Poultry farming business has numerous benefits. As a result many farmers prefer to invest in this business. People generally establish poultry farm for the purpose of producing eggs, meat and generating high revenue from these products. Billions of chickens are being raised throughout the world as a good source of food from their eggs and meat. However, here I am shortly describing the main benefits of poultry farming.

• The main benefit of poultry farming is, it doesn’t require high capital for starting. You need just basic capital to start raising poultry. And most of the poultry birds are not costly enough to start raising.
• Poultry farming doesn’t require a big space unless you are going to start commercially. You can easily raise some birds on your own backyard with one or numerous coops or cages. So, if you are interested in poultry farming, then you can easily do it on your own backyard with several birds.
• Commercial poultry farming business also ensure high return of investment within a very short period. Some poultry birds like broiler chickens take shorter duration of time to mature and generating profit.
• Poultry farm structures do not require high maintenance. You can minimize diseases and illness in poultry by following proper hygiene and care. Diseases are less in some poultry birds like quails, turkeys etc.
• In most cases, you don’t need any licence. Because almost all types of poultry birds are domestic. Although, if you need licence from the relevant authority it is also easy for poultry.
• Poultry provides fresh and nutritious food and has a huge global demand. Global consumers of poultry products prefer them due to their nutrients and freshness. Poultry products are not much expensive and most of the people can afford those.
• Marketing poultry products is very easy. There is an established market for poultry products in almost all places of the world. So, you don’t have to think about marketing your products. You can easily sell the products in your nearest local market.
• Poultry farming creates income and employment opportunities for the people. Unemployed educated youth can easily create a great income and employment opportunity for them by raising poultry commercially. Women and students can also do this business along with their daily activities.
• Almost all bank approve loans for this types of business venture. So, if you want to start this business commercially, then you can apply for loans to your local banks.
• There are many more benefits of poultry farming along with the above mentioned benefits. Start raising and you will gradually learn everything.

Various Methods of Poultry Farming
Worldwatch institute described that, “about 74% of total poultry meat and 68% of total poultry eggs produced from intensive poultry farming method. Free range farming is the other alternative method of intensive poultry farming. Free range farming method is used for large number of poultry birds with high stocking density. There are some basic differences between intensive  and free range poultry farming. Intensive poultry farming method is a highly efficient system which saves, land, feed, labor and other resources and increases production. In this system the poultry farming environment is fully controlled by the farmer. So, it ensures continuous production throughout the year in any environment and seasons. Intensive poultry farming has some disadvantages too. Some people says intensive system creates health risks, abuse the animals and harmful for environment. On the other hand free range poultry farming method requires a large place fro raising the birds and the production is about the same as intensive method. However, in the case of both intensive and free range poultry farming method the producers must have to use nationally approved medications like antibiotics regularly to keep the poultry birds free from diseases.

Layer Poultry Farming
The poultry birds which are raised for egg production are called layer poultry. Commercial hen generally starts laying eggs at the age of 12-20 weeks. They start laying eggs regularly at their 25 weeks of age. After 70-72 weeks of age egg production of layer poultry get reduced. For commercial layer poultry farming, producers generally keep the hens for 12 months from their first laying period. And then sell them for slaughter purpose. Although chickens naturally survive for more than 6 years. For re-invigorating egg laying, the hens are force moulted in some countries. For commercial egg laying poultry farming systems, the environmental conditions are often automatically controlled by the producers. For a simple example, presence of light helps the bird for laying eggs earlier. So, the producers should provide more lightening period to increase the probability of beginning laying eggs. The egg-laying birds lays more eggs in warmer months than the cold months. So, keeping the temperature of the room moderate will be very helpful for better egg production. Some commercial egg laying chicken breeds can produce more than 300 eggs a year. Layer poultry are raised in various methods. The common and most popular layer poultry farming systems are described shortly below.

• Free Range Farming: Free range poultry farming means providing freely roaming facilities to the poultry birds for a certain period of a day. Although they are kept inside the house at night to keep them free from predators and adverse weather. In free range farming method the poultry birds generally roam freely throughout the whole day. Which means they spent half of their life outside the house. For free range poultry farming system select a suitable land which has the facilities of adequate drainage system, good ventilation, appropriate protection from prevailing winds, good protection from all types of predators and free from excessive cold, heat or dampness. Excessive cold, heat and damp is very harmful for poultry birds and reduce their productivity. This system also requires less feed than cage and barn systems. The poultry manure from free range farming used as fertilizer for crops directly. Although free range farming method is very suitable for poultry birds but it has some difficulties too. In this system the poultry birds can be victim of predators easily and may caught by various type of diseases.

• Organic Method: Organic layer poultry rearing system is also one type of free range farming system. But the main differences between the two systems are, in free range farming method a large numbers of poultry birds are raised together but in organic method a certain species of poultry bird are raised in small group with low stocking density. Organic laying system has some restrictions in the routine use of synthetic yolk colourants, water, feed, medications, other feed additives and obviously a smaller group size with low stocking density. In organic laying system the producer should keep highest 1000 poultry birds per hector and maximum 2000 birds in each house.

• Yarding Method: Yarding poultry farming method is such a method in which cows and chickens are raised together. The farmer make a fence in his yard and keep all the poultry birds and cattle there together. The birds and cattle has the freedom of movement inside the fence. It is a very popular system used by small farmer.

• Battery Cage Method: Battery cage layer poultry rearing method is one of the very common methods used in many countries. In this system usually small sized metal cages are used. Every cages can accommodate about 3 to 8 hens. The walls of the cages are generally made of mesh or solid metal and the floor is made of sloped wire mesh which allow the faeces to drop down. When the hens lays eggs, then all the eggs gather in the egg collecting conveyor belt of the cage. In this system food is provided in front of the hens by a long bisected metal or plastic pipe and water served to them by using overhead nipple systems. The cages are arranged in long rows in one above another system. There may have several floors in a single shade which can keep many even thousands of hens together. For reducing feather and vent pecking, the light intensity is generally kept lower than 10 lux. The battery cage method has some benefits. The main benefits of battery cage are listed below.

1. It is very easy to care for the birds.
2. Very easy to collect eggs.
3. Cleaner eggs.
4. Requires less feed to produce eggs.
5. Thousands of hens may be housed in a specific floor space of the house.
6. The birds suffers less by internal parasites.
7. Labor cost is very low.

Besides those benefits battery cage system has some difficulties too. By rearing large number of hens in a small place the air inside the house may contain high ratio of co2. The hens can’t get sufficient space to walk, flap their wings, stand or perch. For this reason they may suffer by frustration and boredom and their behaviors may change which affect their production. Battery cage system is banned in some countries because it is considerate as against the animal welfare.

• Furnished Cage Method: Furnished cage method is a developed version of battery cage system. In this system the hens get more spaces and facilities than battery cage system. A furnished cage for hens should contain sufficient space for walk, perch, flap their wings, nest, special feed and water pot etc.

Broiler Poultry Farming
The poultry birds which are raised for commercial meat production are called broiler poultry. By using modern farming methods broiler chickens become suitable for consumption within their 5 to 6 weeks of age. However, see the common raising systems which are mostly used for commercial broiler poultry farming.

• Indoor Raising Methods: In this method broilers are kept inside a house. Rice hulls, wood shavings, peanut shells etc. are used as litter in the floor of the house. In this system the broilers are kept in a large and open house (known as growout houses) and they become suitable for consumption within their 5 to 6 weeks of age.  This types of poultry houses are well equipped with mechanical systems for delivering the feed and water to the poultry birds. Well ventilation system, coolers and heaters are must. It is very important to keep the house always dry and clean. Generally a house of 400 feet long and 40 feet wide can accommodate about 20,000 birds. One-half square feet space is required per bird.

• Free-Range Methods: In free-range broiler farming methods the broilers are kept like the free-range layers. The broiler breeds which grows slowly(takes more than 8 weeks for reaching slaughter weight) are suitable for raising in this systems. The main facilities of free-range farming systems is that, it allows the birds scratching, foraging, pecking and outdoor exercise.

• Organic Farming Methods: Organic farming method is almost the same as free-range farming systems. But the main difference is that, in organic farming methods the birds are not allowed for randomly using of in-feed or in-water medications, other food additives and synthetic amino acids. This system is very suitable for the poultry breeds which reach slaughter weight slowly(around 12 weeks).

Some Popular Poultry Breeds For Farming
There are some popular and mostly raised poultry birds. Among them chickens, turkeys, quails etc. are mostly raised poultry birds.

• Chicken
• Turkey
• Quail
• Ostrich
• Duck
• Pigeon
• Peacock

Poultry Housing
Good and suitable housing play a vital role in raising all types of poultry birds. Some birds grow and live hapily in the floor of poultry house and some in cages. Depending on the birds, you have to make a suitable house for your birds and ensure availability of all types of necessary facilities for them. Consider the following aspects while building houses for your poultry birds.

• Always keep sufficient space in your poultry house, depending on the birds. So that your birds can live, grow and produce happily. Never overcrowded the poultry house.
• Good ventilation system is a must. Ensure that you poultry houses are well ventilated.
• You also have to ensure sufficient flow of fresh air and light inside the house.
• If you go for commercial production, keep proper distance between one house to another house.
• Clean the house and equipment on a regular basis. Sterilize the house before bringing new chicks into your farm.
• Take necessary steps for preventing all types of predators and harmful animals.
• Make good temperature management so that you birds do not suffer by excessive hot or cold.
• Make suitable drainage system inside the house for cleaning it properly.
• Making poultry houses in calm and quite place is always a good idea. See our housing guides for various types of poultry birds.

Feeding
Feeding high quality, fresh and nutritious food always ensure good health, proper growth and high production. So, always feed your poultry birds healthy and nutritious feeds. Add all types of necessary vitamins and minerals to their feed. Commercial poultry feeds for various types of birds are available in the market. You can easily feed this to your birds. Along with feeding your birds high quality and nutritious feeds, always serve them sufficient amount of fresh and clean water according to their demand.

Care & Management
Always take good care of your birds. Learn more about various types of poultry diseases, symptoms and treatment. Vaccinate the birds timely. Provide them nutritious feed and clean water. Clean their house on a regular basis.

Marketing
Marketing process of various types of poultry products are very easy. Poultry products have a huge demand globally. So you don’t have to worry about marketing your products. You can easily sell your farm products in your nearest local market or big supermarkets.

In a word, poultry farming is absolutely a very popular and profitable business idea. If you are thinking about setting up a poultry farm, then read and learn as much as possible about poultry farming. You can visit your nearest farmer who are already raising various types of poultry birds. Wish your success!

How to Grow Rice for Profit

Aside the Oil industry & gas which is now losing dominance, and the Technology industry, the agriculture industry is the third best viable industry in the world; especially since the emergence of new technological innovative that have helped to make the food production process easier. There is always a market for the food item you produce as long as the people in that location are familiar with the food. But for this article, I will focus more on rice farming and how to start your own rice farm; since rice is a widely each food all around the whole, you are rest assured that there is a variable market for your rice products. Before discussing the steps involved with starting a rice farming business, I will mention some factors you need to put in place before you can usefully run your rice farm.

4 Factors to Consider Before Starting a Successful Rice Farming Business

• Land Space-: If you are going into rice farming in commercial quantity, you need a large expanse of land for the farming; a fallow land in the country side should be an ideal land for the business; you need at least 10 acres to start the production in commercial quantity. Also, the land should be easily accessible for easy transportation of the finished products to the final users.
• Capital-: Rice farming business is a capital intensive business; you need cash to lease or buy off several acres or hectares of land that will be used for the business. You also need cash to lease machineries for cultivation and harvesting, and also to build a silo or warehouse for the storage of the rice before the finished product is sold to wholesalers or final consumer.
• Irrigation System-: Rice is best grown in a swampy area, but if by chance you couldn’t get hold of a swampy land, then you have to build a system of irrigation where water can be constantly supplied to the farm in large quantities to allow the rice plants grow well.
• Hulling Mill-: Except if there is a hulling mill near your farm, you need to get hulling machines to remove the hull from the rice seeds.

Starting a Rice Farming Business – Sample Business Plan Template

1. Develop a Business Plan-: The first step to take is to develop a business plan. The plan should include how much capital you need to get stated, the site and location of the farm, how many hectares you will start with, how to locate your buyers, what are your goals for the first few years of starting the farm, will you buy your own equipments? Or will you lease other people’s equipments? Answer to these questions will give you a clear image of what your business will look like.

2. Capital-: I mentioned earlier that the rice farming business is a capital intensive business, so you will require a big start up capital to run the business. If you have the capital to invest, that makes it even better. Even if you don’t have the capital but you are certain that you can run the rice farm successfully, you can get a business partnerthat will invest in the business and also help in the running of the business or you can look for an angel investor that will just invest in the business.

3. Acquire the Land to Be Used for the Farming-: You can acquire or buy of the land if you have the money to do so, even if it means making the payment in installments. You can also sign a long term lease agreement with the owner of the land to use the land as a rice farm.

4. Start the Cultivation Process-: The rice cultivation process is a long one. You can start sourcing for good rice seedlings to planting the rice in a nursery bed, transplanting it into the farm land after two to four weeks. Secondly, if the land isn’t naturally swampy, you need to make provision for constant supply of water in large quantity to water the plant constantly especially during the early few weeks. Finally, weeding process. A rice plant is very subtle to weeds, which means that it can easily be chocked by weeds. So you need to apply herbicides to kill the weeds and your need to spray organic fertilizer every few weeks to help the rice plants grow well.

5. Harvesting-: It takes about three to four months after planting for the rice plant to be ready for harvest. You know that the rice is ready for harvest when the plant changes from green to brown colour.

6. After Harvest Process-: After the harvest, the rice seedling needs under some other processes before it is ready for final consumption

• Sun Dry the Harvested Rice-: After harvesting the rice, you need to sun dry it for three to five days to dry up the remaining moisture; so that the hull can easily be separated from the grain.
• Hulling-: The next after harvest process is to hull the rice; that is separating the hull from grain. You need a hulling and blowing machine to this done.
• Parboiling-: You need to parboil the rice; after which the rice is ready to be distributed to the buyers.

1. Final Packaging-: You can decide to package the rice in branded sacks unless you have a contract to supply the rice without sack. The branded sacks should contain the name and location of you farm and also a mobile number customers can call to make inquiries for supply.

7. Getting Buyers-: Even before you start the farm, you need to have a few listed of potential customers who will need you finished rice; you can contact them once the rice is ready for them to start placing supplies. You can also contact restaurant and fast food owners in the area to tell them about your rice supply.

At this stage of the article, you should know the whole process involved with starting a rice farm business including factors that must be put into consideration before starting the business.

Invest In Watermelon Farming Business

Watermelon is among the best fruits recommended for people that wish to loose weight; and with the high rate of overweight or obesity related issues, and other numerous health benefits watermelon offers to the body, the demand for watermelon has sky rocked over the years. Starting a watermelon farming business can yield massive profits as you can cultivate and harvest three batches of watermelon fruits in a year.

For this article, I will discuss why you should invest in watermelon farming, and how you can start your own watermelon farm in no time.

4 Reasons Why You Should Invest In Watermelon Farming Business

• High Turnover-: It takes a watermelon eighty five days to get to maturity from the planting date. This means you can have three sets of harvested watermelon fruits to sale within the year and if you started out the business on a large parcel of land, then you are sure to get huge returns on your investment.
• There is a Ready Market for Your Produce-: Watermelon also contains some enzymes that help to fight against cancer causing cells in the body; you see why there will always be a high demand for watermelon.
• Watermelon Is Pest Resistant-: This means that watermelon plant is resistant to pests and diseases that usually affect plants; you will not need to spend much on greeting ride of pests from affecting the watermelon.
• Very Easy to Start: As long as you have the land space needed for the farming, you don’t need much of other things to get your watermelon business up and running; you don’t need much technical knowledge to run a watermelon farm.

3 Things You Need to Start a Watermelon Farming Business

• Large Expanse of Land-: Each watermelon plant is called a vine; and the vines get to spread out as they mature and they need space for the plant to bear bigger fruits. I will talk more on the space needed for a watermelon plant to grow well.
• Sunlight-: A watermelon plant requires of sunlight to grow well. So the land space must be in a location where there is adequate sunlight to nurture the plants.
• Good Seedling: The type of seedling you use will affect the output or quality of watermelon fruits your plants will yield. There are very various varieties of watermelon species, you have to make a choice of which variety you wish and carry out further research on how to handle the cultivation process before you embarked on it.

Starting a Watermelon Farm – Sample Business Plan Template

1. Get Your Land Space-: I mentioned earlier that you need a large expanse of land to successfully run your watermelon farm. The first step to take is to find the land you will need for the cultivation in a location where the watermelon plants can get six to eight hours of sunlight each day.
2. Source for Seedling-: The next step to take is to source for healthy watermelon seedling. Farmers that already run their own watermelon farmers can supply you with healthy seedling to use on your own farm.
3. Begin the Cultivation Process-: The cultivation process in watermelon farming is quite complicated as you need to plant the seedlings in a specific way to give them better space to germinate. When planting the watermelon seed, each hole for the watermelon seedling needs to be 1 foot deep and over 1.5 feet wide. Cover the hole with fertilizer, place the seed on the top and push with your finger till it gets to at least 0.5 foot deep. For the spacing, you should allow a space of 8 feet between each plant to allow the vines enough space to spread out when the plant begins to grow. If possible, do the planting when the whether is hot, up to at least 70 degrees hot, because watermelon functions better in hot weather.
4. Watering-: For the first few weeks after planting, you need to water the watermelon generously twice in a week, then reduce the watering to just once every two weeks as soon as the vines start sprouting out. This is to help increase the sugar content in the watermelon fruit. If a watermelon has a watery taste, that was because the farmer continued to water it consistently even after the vines started growing and didn’t give it the needed space to absolve sugar from the soil.
5. Weed Control-: Since the watermelon plant is pest resistant, you need to focus more on getting ride of weeds on the farm; this can be done with herbicides.
6. Harvesting-: This is the part everybody is waiting because harvesting means that the sales and money making period is around the corner. I mentioned somewhere above that it takes a watermelon plant 85 days to get to maturity The question is;how do you know that you watermelon is ready for harvest? Your watermelon is ready for harvest when the fruit looses it outer shiny appearance and also the when the part of the fruit that touches the ground changes into a rich yellow colour.
7. Sales-: After harvesting, the final step is transportation from the farm to the wholesaler, retailer or final consumption for sale. To successfully sell your watermelon produce, you have to know who your market is. The main market for your produce include: owner of fruit stores, grocery store owners, restaurants and hotels, pharmaceutical companies that need watermelon extracts as raw material for the production of supplements.

At this stage of the article, I have covered various sub topics relating to watermelon farming including; reasons to start watermelon farming business, things you need to start the business and how to start the business. Finally, Watermelon is a fresh produce and you don’t expect it to stay fresh for a long time after it is harvested that is why you need to carry out a feasibility research in your location even before you start the farm to ensure that there is a ready market and high demand for your produce.

Frozen Food Business

Food business is one of the best businesses you could ever think of doing. It is not only profitable; it also has a high turnover because people would always eat no matter what their financial situation is like. It doesn’t matter if there is an economic meltdown or global recession, there would always be a need for people to feed themselves. A lot of people can do without new clothes or luxuries like cars, holidays, or even education but as long as a human being keeps living and breathing, there would always be a need for him to feed himself.

Frozen foods business is one of the most lucrative branches of food business because a lot of people are too busy with work that they find it difficult to spend a lot of time cooking or searching for fresh ingredients to cook with. Cooking with fresh ingredients takes a lot of time than using frozen ingredients.

For instance, if you want to cook stew with fresh tomatoes, pepper and all other ingredients, you would have to spend a lot of time preparing the ingredients. A meal that you could spend ten minutes cooking with pre-processed ingredients could take more than thirty minutes using fresh ingredients.

Most people would rather walk into the nearest supermarket, grab some pieces of frozen chicken and cook their meals other than going through the stressful and time consuming process of preparing fresh chicken. Although eating fresh meals is considered healthier, people really have no choice but to rely on ready-made frozen foods to help save time and energy.

Frozen food business can be classified into two types, so if you want to go into this business, you have to select which category you want to go with;

Two Categories of Frozen Food Business

• Distribution

Frozen food distribution business involves wholesale or retail of frozen food products made by other companies. For this business, all you need is a good cold room, storage facility and a good delivery van. You may also need to obtain business license depending on the country you are operating in.

• Production

Frozen food production on the other hand involves manufacturing, processing and packaging your own frozen foods under your own brand label. To start this business, you would need more capital than a frozen distribution business; you would also need a business license from food and health regulatory authorities.

Top 20 Frozen Food Small Business ideas

1. Yoghurt-: Yoghurts are healthy snacks. They are usually recommended by nutritionists as a healthy inclusion in our diets daily. To start a frozen yoghurt business, you may decide to buy a franchise of an existing yoghurt business or start producing and selling your own yoghurt. You can either start a walk-in yoghurt restaurant where people can eat their yoghurt while they hang out or supply your yoghurts to retail stores and supermarkets around you.

2. Poultry Products-: Poultry products are the most popular frozen foods that people buy. This business involves selling pre-packaged chicken, turkey, chicken wings, fillets, chicken breasts all other poultry products.

3. Sea food-: Sea foods are mostly used by restaurants and hotels to prepare continental cuisines. A lot of people also eat sea food at home.

4. Chopped Potatoes-: Pre-chopped potatoes are also common in the frozen food industry. This business is really easy to start. All you need is to purchase industrial potato choppers, buy some fresh potatoes, some packaging materials and preservatives.

5. Salads-: Salads are also very healthy. They are packed with vitamins and minerals. A lot of people eat salads on a daily basis.

6. Fruit Juice-: You could also make money from producing and selling fresh, 100% natural fruit juice.

7. Vegetables-: Another business idea in the frozen foods industry is making and selling of mixed vegetables like carrots, green peas, sweet corns, broccoli, spinach etc. Pre-mixed vegetables are very easy to cook with, no chopping or washing required, all that is required is to open and use.

8. Snails-: You could also make money from packaging and selling frozen snails.

9. Dairy Products-: Another idea is to sell dairy products like milk, cheese, butter, ice-cream etc.

10. Meat: The ratio of vegans to non-vegans is usually higher in most places. A lot of people consume different types of meats and you can make a lot of money from selling pork, beef, goat, gizzard and even sausages.

11. Stew and Soups-: You could also cook and sell delicious stews, soups and sauces that people can easily heat and eat without stress.

12. Frozen meals: You could also make money from selling frozen, pre-packaged meals. Bachelors and busy parents are some of your target customers for this kind of business.

13. Pizza-: You could also make money from packaging and selling frozen pizza or pizza toppings.

14. Sliced onions-: A lot of people hating slicing onions because of the teary effect that it has on the eyes. Such people rely on pre-sliced onions to cook their meals.

15. Dog Food-: Another smart business idea is selling frozen dog foods or other types of cooked pet foods.

16. Snacks and appetizers-: Think about putting your baking skills to use by selling frozen snacks and appetizers.

17. Packaging Materials-: You can serve other frozen food business owners around you by selling and supplying of packaging materials to frozen food manufacturing companies.

18. Mobile Frozen food store-: Another option is to start a mobile frozen food store to give people access to all types of frozen foods without necessarily having to make a trip to the grocery store.

19. Selling Frozen food equipment-: If you are not interested in any of the businesses listed above, you can consider becoming a distributor or retailer of equipment used to manufacture and sell frozen foods such as freezers, cold rooms, cutters, choppers and all other necessary tools.

20. Fresh farm supplier: To process frozen foods, one needs fresh foods. You can start a business of supplying fresh farm produce to frozen food manufacturers to be used for processing frozen foods.