HOW TO MAKE MONEY PROCESSING AND MARKETING SNAIL FOR EXPORT

Snail
business in Nigeria today is now becoming a
highly valued lucrative business one can venture in.

It is also known to people
as “Congo meat”
in Nigeria.
Snails constitute an important source of animal
protein for many coastal
communities in Nigeria.
Snail meat consumption as we
all know has become a lifestyle for some people especially those eating it on medical grounds.

         
Snails are very useful in pharmaceuticals, for the production of certain drugs,
because of their therapeutic properties. It has low fat and cholesterol and is the meat recommended for
special medical patients.

The
emergence of snail meat joints in almost every neighborhood where snail meat
delicacies are prepared is a clear indication that snail meat consumption is
gaining a wide acceptance.

PROCESSING PROCEDURES:

Snail meat
for export must be processed with great care so as to increase its
marketability. Below are the procedures that must be followed for processing
snail meat for export.

1. The snail
should be starved for about 24 hours in other to empty their stomach

2. Prepare
enough quantity of water by boiling at greater than 70 degrees centigrade and
transfer into a bucket or drum.

3. Add
enough lumps of alum (potassium or ammonium aluminum sulphate)

4. Transfer
the snails into hot water and cover up immediately

5.
After 2 to 3 minutes, open the lid and pour off the resulting dirty
from the hot water

6. Cool
under running tap

7. With
ease, shake off each snail from its shell into clean, cool water

8. Remove
offal

9. Rinse in
two changes of clean cool water

10. At this
time, it is ready for immediate consumption or packaging for export.

PACKAGING FOR EXPORT

Snail Meat
for export can be packaged in several ways, these include the following ways:

CELLOPHANE: This is a transparent paper-like
product that is impervious to moisture and used to wrap candy or products for
export. 

The
processed snail meat may be sealed in cellophane and refrigerated for local or
foreign market. 

SUN DRYING/OVEN DRYING: This is another preservation method
for export, after sun drying or oven drying; it should be kept in a neat,
aerated enclosure till when needed. 

Live snails
could also be packaged in a wooden box, basket or cellophane with maximum
ventilation for export too.

MARKETING

Because of
the high demand of snail meat, there are various channels in which one can market
it. They include the following.

1. Hotels

2.
Restaurants

3. Stores,
supermarket & markets

4. Corporate
parties such as wedding, naming/ birthday celebration

5.
Institutions

6.
Neighborhoods

Hope this
information helped.

In my next
post I will be showing how to start a profitable snail farming enterprise with
very little capital. 

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