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OPERATIONS

Cropron focuses on post-harvest management and processing of soybean in Ghana. Our facilities use locally cultivated soybean to manufacture high quality meal and oil, sold under the flagship SoyPro brand.

Most locally produced soybean in Ghana is exported, with USD 29 Million worth of exports in 2022-23. Meanwhile, domestic demand for soymeal and oil are mostly met by imports - 83,000 MT of soymeal worth USD 56 Million were imported in the same year.

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This is where we come in.

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Project Objectives

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Increase domestic availability of high quality soy products 
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Decrease Ghanaian farmer reliance on fickle export prices
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Improve post harvest handling of soybeans through tools & education

MAIN
PROCESSING FACILITY

PHYSICAL EXTRUSION OIL MILL

Cropron's main processing facility is located near Tamale, in the Yong-Savelugu Municipal Area of Ghana's Northern Region.

 

This placement is strategic, owing to the fact that the region accounts for 90% of soybean cultivated across the country annually.

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This facility is responsible for cleaning raw soybeans and processing them into full-fat soybean meal, low-fat soybean meal, and soybean oil. The soybean meal is packed and packaged on-site, while the soybean oil is sent to refineries for further processing.

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Our facility can process up to 75 Tonnes of soybean per day, with expansion plans bringing it to above 120 Tonnes per day.

The Process

Cropron's processing facility incorporates the use of physical extrusion to process soybean. Physical extrusion involves heating of cleaned, cracked soybean seed at a specified high temperature range under pressure. The extruded soybean is then sent to an expeller (oil press) for oil extraction.

PHYSICAL EXTRUSION - BENEFITS

Efficient

A single pass of this process yields 71% oil extraction, only ~6-8% residual oil content in post expeller soybean meal.

Robust

Low FFA content in our low-fat soybean meal guarantees high storability and ease of transport to off-takers. 

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Nutritious

Best at eliminating anti-nutritional factors in soy meal, while retaining maximum nutrition. Increased amino-acid digestibility and minimal biterness.

Eco-Conscious

Energy efficient process with no waste streams or added chemicals.

Cropron's Soybean Processing Flowchart
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“The entire process at Cropron from intake to packaging is completely organic and contains no added chemicals. "

SUPPLIERS

Working With the Best

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Key equipment for each section of the plant is purchased from leading suppliers in the industry.

 

Equipment sourced from reputed manufacturers is poised to focus on minimizing energy utilization while ensuring that our facility operates with seamlessness and top-notch efficiency. ​

Bühler 

Cropron's Buhler separator classifier for soybean seed cleaning

Swiss-based manufacturer with worldwide expertise in seed cleaning & grading solutions.


Poised to bring final impurities in soybean to <1%.  


Cropron’s purchase:

Turnkey cleaning equipment for soybean grain. This includes a drum sieve, fine cleaner, magnetic separator, and de-stoner.

Cropron's Buhler destoner for soybean seed cleaning
Cropron's Buhler drum sieve for soybean cleaning
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Farmer Service Centers

Cropron is establishing Farmer Service Centres at three locations that will be manned by competent company employees. These centers will provide services like machinery rentals, post-harvest educational information, and farm-gate procurement of produce.

LOCATIONS

Yong

Savelugu-Zoggu Road, Savelugu Municipal District

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Nayali Fong

Gushegu-Karaga Road,

Gushegu District

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Yendi

Yendi-Bimbila Road

Yedi District

POST-HARVEST MACHINERY

During the harvesting season, there is a shortage of threshing machines. Some of the local machines available to farmers currently are old and outdated. These machines produce high wastage in terms of crushed grains that are threshed out with the husk, leading to significant losses for farmers. In the case of soybeans, most of the threshing machines currently in use do not efficiently separate impurities from the grains. This results in farmers not getting the right price for their produce.


Cropron's Farmer Service Centers engages with the small holder farmers by providing them access to good quality threshing machines through a leasing process wherein the farmers pay for using the machine in kind. It is an established practice in the region where the farmers pay for the machine by giving 10% of the grains produced by the threshing machine.

SEED PROCUREMENT

The Farm Service Centers will serve as buying locations. Farmers and agents nearby will be encouraged to bring their goods for sale at these centers. Apart from that, materials shall also be procured through a network of agents from the interior districts in the Northern region.

INFORMATION & OTHER SERVICES

Employees present at the farmer service centers are educated on the cultivation and post-harvest management of soybeans. Cropron is enthusiastic to provide up-to-date information to farmers to ensure safe and sustainable practices. 

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In the future, the centers will also provide the farmers with inputs viz. fertilizers, agrochemicals, farm advisory, and credit linkages. 

Address

396 Yong-Savelugu

Municipal Area,

Northern Region, Ghana​​

Phone

+233 20998 6027

+91 97259 49197

Email

GPS Code

NV-0366-3252

© 2024 by Cropron Limited.

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