Peanut oil pressing profession in Thanh Chuong is in good demand and has good prices.
Huy Thu - July 4, 2023 5:20 PM
(Baonghean.vn) - Every peanut season, the peanut oil pressing business in Thanh Chuong is bustling with activity. Peanut oil has a good price, and there are still many customers coming to buy it without having to go to the market.
These days, peanut oil pressing facilities in Tu Vien village, Thanh Luong commune, Thanh Chuong district are quite busy. Some households have to hire seasonal workers from the local area to pick peanuts, make cakes... with wages of around 200,000 VND/day. The peanut raw material for oil pressing facilities is provided by traders at a price of 35,000 - 36,000 VND/kg. Photo: Huy ThuMs. Nguyen Thi Nu (50 years old) - a reputable peanut oil presser in the area shared that to have good quality peanut oil, the peanuts must be clean, large, even, and carefully selected. When ripe, the peanuts must be cooked, not overcooked. Maintaining hygiene during the oil pressing process is equally important. Photo: Huy ThuCurrently, Tu Vien village has about 15 households engaged in the profession, concentrated in Hamlet 2, Thanh Luong Commune. Among them, there are households that operate on a large scale, year-round, some households operate seasonally, on a small scale. In the past, the peanut oil pressing profession was quite hard because of rudimentary means and tools. Now, households have invested in purchasing many types of machines: peanut shellers, flour mills, presses... Photo: Huy ThuMs. Ngo Thi Trung (60 years old) - a famous peanut oil pressing household in the village shared: This season, her family often stores several tons of shelled peanuts at home. On peak production days, the production is about 100 liters of oil. In addition to pressing oil for sale, Ms. Trung's family also provides hiring services. At this time, people bring peanuts to press for winter oil. The oil pressing fee is 10,000 VND/liter. Many days, working all day and all night is not enough. Photo: Huy ThuAfter being dried, peanuts will be wrapped into round cakes, as thin as a plate to facilitate oil pressing. The material used to wrap peanut powder must be clean, durable, and guaranteed to be reusable. Photo: Huy ThuAccording to the elderly in the area, in the past, making a batch of peanut oil was quite a feat. The whole family had to stay up all night to peel the peanuts or pour them out into the yard and use a rice mill to break them, then use a mortar and pestle to pound the peanuts into small pieces. When pressing oil, one had to use stones and levers, which was both laborious and time-consuming, and not very productive. In the photo: Using a plate as a mold to wrap peanut powder. Photo: Huy ThuCurrently, most households are using manual presses. Each household usually has 2-3 presses. Each press, depending on its size, can press 30-40 cakes. Larger presses can press 28-30 kg of peanuts at a time. Each pressing session lasts from 1-1.5 hours. Photo: Huy ThuUsing a steam press to press oil is quite light and flexible. According to people, 15 kg of peanut shells or 11 kg of peanut kernels will press 5 liters of oil. Photo: Huy ThuMr. Nguyen Sy Cat is the pioneer of the village in applying new techniques to production, using industrial oil pressing lines. He purchased 2 industrial oil pressing lines with a budget of hundreds of millions of VND, which can process 1 ton of peanuts per day. The advantage of this line is that it frees up labor, has high productivity, and produces a lot of oil... Photo: Huy ThuIn the midst of the chemical chaos, Tu Vien village's peanut oil is a natural product, with a golden color, a distinctive aroma, guaranteed quality, and is favored by many people. The products are not sold at the market, but are often purchased by customers at the place. The selling price of peanut oil at the establishments is 110,000 VND/liter (550,000 - 570,000 VND/5 liter can, about 100,000 - 120,000 VND/can higher than the same period last year). Photo: Huy ThuIn addition to oil pressing for profit and wages, the oil pressing profession also produces another product, dried oil. On average, 10 kg of peanuts after pressing will produce 6 kg of dried oil cake. For households that press oil and also raise livestock and poultry, dried oil is a good source of food that can be used to feed pigs, buffaloes, cows, chickens, ducks, etc. The current price of dried oil is 11,000 VND/kg, but it is also quite scarce. Photo: Huy Thu
Manual peanut oil pressing in Tu Vien village. Video: Huy Thu
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