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Start a corn mill or maize flour plant

Maize→Corn flour and dough meal, and feed from the bran

Many start as a grinding mill, where people bring their own corn and pay to have it ground. From there you add a cleaner and a packer and sell your own flour. The bran and germ left over go to feed.

Bigger, smaller or a different product? Describe it and we plan the line.

The line, step by step

What happens from maize to corn flour and dough meal, and the machine for each step. Steps marked “add later” can be done by hand while you start.

  1. Shell

    Takes the grain off the cobs.

    Maize shellers and threshers
  2. Clean

    Blows out dust, chaff and broken grain, and takes out stones.

    Mobile grain cleaners and graders
  3. Dry

    Add later

    Dries grain to keep it from going mouldy in store.

    Grain dryers
  4. Mill

    Grinds the grain into meal or flour. The machine a grinding mill starts with.

    Corn & hammer mill
  5. Degerm

    Add later

    Takes out the germ first, for a whiter flour that keeps longer.

    Maize degerming and milling plants
  6. Pack

    Add later

    Weighs and seals flour in branded bags for shops.

    Powder filling and packing machines

Starter line

The machines a small plant opens with. The other steps are done by hand at first. Already have one of them? Take it out on the quote form before you send, and we price the rest all-in to Accra.

  1. Maize shellers and threshersShell
  2. Mobile grain cleaners and gradersClean
  3. Corn & hammer millMill

Full line

Every machine on the line, for when you are ready to grow, or to start bigger. Already have one of them? Take it out on the quote form before you send, and we price the rest all-in to Accra.

  1. Maize shellers and threshersShell
  2. Mobile grain cleaners and gradersClean
  3. Grain dryersDry
  4. Corn & hammer millMill
  5. Maize degerming and milling plantsDegerm
  6. Powder filling and packing machinesPack

Power

Corn mills come with a diesel engine or an electric motor; bigger plants need three-phase power. Tell us what you have.

Grow machine by machine

Each machine can be its own order, with its own deposit and instalments. Start with the step that earns, and order the next one from what it brings in.

Starting as a group? Buy it together: each member pays their share from their own phone.

Also useful, and spares to keep

Farming & food processing

Millet and sorghum dehullers

Machines that strip the husk from millet, sorghum and similar grains before milling, for farmers and millers in the north.

Ask for our priceLowest price guaranteed. Seen it cheaper in Ghana? We match it.

In Accra 1 Jan to 15 Feb if you order by Fri 13 Nov, 6pm

Farming & food processing

Grain and cocoa moisture meters

Handheld meters that tell when maize, rice and cocoa beans are dry enough to store or sell.

Ask for our priceLowest price guaranteed. Seen it cheaper in Ghana? We match it.

In Accra by Sat 12 Dec if you order by Fri 13 Nov, 6pm

Farming & food processing

Hermetic grain storage bags

Airtight bags that keep maize, beans and rice free of weevils without chemicals.

Ask for our priceLowest price guaranteed. Seen it cheaper in Ghana? We match it.

In Accra 1 Jan to 15 Feb if you order by Fri 13 Nov, 6pm

Parts that wear out are best ordered with the machine, so it never stands still waiting for them.

Before you buy

  1. Aflatoxin comes from mould on damp maize. Buy dry grain, store it in hermetic bags off the floor, and never mill mouldy grain.
  2. Grinding plates and hammers wear out. Order spares with the mill, so it never stands still waiting for parts.
  3. Flour sold in branded bags needs FDA Ghana registration. A grinding service for people’s own corn does not.

Are you ready for the machines?

Tick what you already have in place. What is left shows what to sort out before you order.

  • Agree supply with farmers, aggregators or collectors before you buy machines. A plant waiting for raw material earns nothing.

  • Talk to traders, shops, schools and exporters, and take them samples. Selling is harder than making.

  • Machines need a solid floor, a roof, drainage, and room for raw stock and finished goods.

  • Ask ECG what your site has or can get. We quote machines with a diesel engine or the motor that matches your power.

  • Food plants wash a lot. A storage tank or borehole keeps you working when the supply stops.

  • Start with the machine that earns first. With Landed you pay a deposit, then the rest in any amounts while it ships, with no interest.

  • Register the business with the Office of the Registrar of Companies and get your district assembly’s business permit. Packed food, drinks and cosmetics need FDA Ghana registration.

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Buying a machine with Landed

  • One all-in price to Accra before you pay anything: the machine, shipping, duty and clearing, in writing.
  • A deposit, then the rest your way while it ships: any amount from GH₵ 50, no fixed schedule, no interest, no fee.
  • The price is locked once your deposit is paid. If the exchange rate, freight or duty change, we absorb it.
  • Straight from the factory, not a middleman, with receipt, packing and arrival photos on your tracker.
  • Your deposit back in full if the seller cannot supply your machine and you do not want an alternative.
  • Covered on the way. Lost or damaged before handover is always on us. Add Landed Protection, and a wrong, not-as-described or dead-on-arrival machine is replaced or refunded in full.
  • A free consultation first on the voltage, spare parts and servicing your machine needs.

Every case is on our refunds page. How instalments work: pay your way.