How to profit from your fish feed processing business?

When starting a fish feed manufacturing business or setting up a fish feed processing plant, you should develop a complete business plan to make a customized feed plant layout design. Before investing in a fish feed pellet production project, there are a few questions that investors should consider. 

Why invest in a fish feed pellet production plant and what is the market potential for the project?

Reasons for investment

• Driven by aquaculture industry: The expansion of aquaculture industry has greatly increased the demand for fish feed.
• Demand for quality upgrade: Consumers attach importance to aquatic product quality, which drives the demand for high-quality fish feed.
• Technology and cost advantage: technological progress reduces production cost and improves production efficiency.

Market Potential

• Strong demand: aquaculture scale development, fish feed demand continues to grow.
• High value-added: High-quality and functional fish feeds have high value-added and strong market competitiveness.
• Diversified channels: Diversified sales channels are conducive to market expansion.
• Environmental protection trend: green fish feed meets the demand of sustainable development and has a broad market prospect.

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Six Points for Making a Fish Feed Pellet Production Business Plan

• Feed varieties should focus on innovation

Fish feed processing has become a relatively mature industry, the scale of small businesses is difficult to meet the needs of large breeding enterprises, investors need to do more research on feed varieties, especially domestic pet feed is becoming increasingly popular, and the production of the pellet feed, puffed feed is a profitable investment.

• Carefully select the geographical location

In places with developed transportation, feed processing plants have the convenience of transportation and markets, it is easier to do well than in remote rural areas.

• Careful selection of raw materials

Raw materials are an easily overlooked problem, it is directly related to the cost of product quality and ultimate profit, so be sure to implement a good source of supply of raw materials.

• Pay attention to the input of technology

The fish feed processing process is an element that must be carefully considered. It is best to have a basic knowledge of nutrition to ensure this.

• Clear fixed assets

Fish feed pellet machines, plants, warehouses, transportation tools, etc., need to be reasonably arranged to invest the money.

• The establishment of multiple sales channels

Through network publicity, advertising effect and other methods to open the fish feed pellet products sales market.

How do you produce high-quality aquafeed pellets?

Raw material selection and quality control

• High-quality raw materials: High-protein fish meal, soybean meal, corn, etc., with high-quality fats and functional additives (such as probiotics and vitamins).
• Strict testing: testing regular indicators such as moisture, protein, fat, etc. and screening for heavy metals, mycotoxins and other harmful substances.

Scientific formula design

• Nutritional matching: The formula is designed according to fish species, growth stage (juvenile/adult) and breeding environment to ensure amino acid balance and energy supply.
• Functional enhancement: Probiotics and enzymes are added to enhance digestibility and immunity.

Advanced Processes

• Crushing and mixing: Crush the raw materials to appropriate particle size (such as 80 mesh), and mix them evenly to avoid nutritional deviation.
• Tempering and granulation: steam tempering (80-90 ℃) to promote starch pasting, granulation to control the die hole and compression ratio to ensure the hardness and water resistance of granules.
• Cooling and sieving: timely cooling to prevent deformation, sieving to remove powder and oversized particles.

Strict quality control

• Process monitoring: real-time recording of parameters (temperature, time, etc.) of crushing, tempering, granulation and other processes.
• Finished product testing: testing particle diameter, hardness, water resistance, nutrient content and microbiological indicators.
• Sample retention and traceability: Save each batch of samples to establish a quality traceability system.

Storage and transportation management

• Storage conditions: dry, ventilated and cool warehouse (temperature ≤25℃, humidity ≤60%), moisture-proof and insect-proof.
• Transportation requirements: avoid moisture, rain, sun exposure, use clean transportation tools, shorten transportation time.

Key Equipment for Establishing Fish Feed Pellet Production Business

Here are the key fish feed manufacturing processes and equipment you should be most concerned about. Buy cost-effective fish feed pellet mills, make plant designs for commercial fish feed pellet plants, and set up a low-investment fish feed pellet processing business.

Fish Feed Manufacturing Process

• Crushing of materials: The grinding process is mainly used to crush raw materials to the required particle size.
• Material mixing: This process is essential for the production of fish feed. Various materials are added to the mixer, including premixes of minerals, vitamins, medication, etc.
• Pelleting process: The design of the pelleting process and the choice of associated equipment is an important factors in the quality of aquafeeds. We have both dry and wet fish feed extruders for pelleting. One of the wet extruders requires a regulator and steam boiler. With different parameters, the puffers can produce floating, sinking, slow and semi-wet feeds that can be adapted to the feed requirements of a wide range of aquatic animals.
• Drying and cooling: In order to extend the storage time of the feed product and to guarantee the quality of the product for a certain period of time, the necessary drying and cooling of the feed pellets are required.

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