GUM ARABIC PROCESSING AND EXPORT PRODUCTION PROCESS
Take 100kg of grade 2 gum Arabic romove any black one, sticks or stone in it, into 20, pack it in 5kg each. Then pour in 100 litres of water. Boil water to highest level (Boiling point of 100oc).
Add 5kg of gum Arabic and continue stearing it for 30-60 minutes and add anther 5kg and stear for another 30-60 minutes.
Continue production process adding 5kg every 30-60 minutes until all Gum Arabic is added.
Do not stop stearing until all you melt all Gum-Arabic. After finishing melting process, allow product to cool.
Filter product with clothe if you are operating a manual production or use a filter machine if you are for mechanize production. Pour filtrate in a plastic drum then allow it to stay in drum for 24 hours (1 day). Refiller it again after 24 hours, make sure that as you are filtring second time allow 20 litres as waste, because you will observed that down part of gum is filled with dirt. This dirty part should not be added to good once.
Preservation Process
You put 180 litres of well filtered gum into mixer or plastic drum, and add dryer to it, also add preservatives. You can add edible preservative or non-edible preservative depending on product that gum will be used on.