Cold Room Business

This is a very lucrative venture and easy to set up once the funds are available. It entails selling livestock feed that require preservation such as meat, chicken, turkey, fish, shrimps, pomo, gizzard among others.

Depending on your location, some items (such as types of fish) will sell faster as compared to others. Carry out a a market survey and determine which livestock sells more. 

BASIC REQUIREMENT

The major requirement for a cold room business is constant power supply. As we know, power supply in Nigeria is not constant and as such one will have to invest in generators.

Others include:

Deep Freezer 

Cutting Knife and Cutlass

Cutting Planks and Table

Scales

Apron

You can start comfortably with just one employee. He must be able to cut livestock.

START UP

As with so many businesses, you can start small or big. 

The cold room business can actually even be done from the comfort of your home. What you really need if you choose this process is to get the word out there starting of course from your closest neighbours.

If you have the finance, you can also go into livestock farming or animal husbandry (where you rear animals for profit). You can also focus on just one aspect such as poultry farming, cattle rearing etc.

Also, in this age and time, people like comfort. Therefore, you can also choose to do home delivery if you are sure you can manage that.

You can even have your website and choose to sell online via an ecommerce portal. See here. 

In addition to livestock, most cold rooms store also sell basic cooking ingredients such as palm oil, groundnut oil, curry, thyme, crayfish etc.