15tpd shea butter oil press machine with steam in Nigeria

Development and Testing of Indigenous Shea Butter Processing

  • 15tpd shea butter oil press machine with steam in Nigeria
  • 15tpd shea butter oil press machine with steam in Nigeria
  • 15tpd shea butter oil press machine with steam in Nigeria
  • 15tpd shea butter oil press machine with steam in Nigeria

Development and Testing of Indigenous Shea Butter

Development and Testing of Indigenous Shea Butter

Nigeria Shea MEDA

Nigeria’s shea butter production: Hard work for

  • How is shea butter made?
  • Afterwards, the ground nuts are roasted outside, over an open flame before going through a simple milling processing machine that squeezes the oil from the shea residues. This produces dark-brownish paste kneaded by hand for up to two hours to get excellent quality shea butter.
  • Can Nigeria double its shea butter production?
  • According to experts, Nigeria can double its shea butter production to 650,000MT for export with the domestication of the crop. In 2016, the Nigeria Institute for Oil Palm Research (NIFOR) said it had been able to reduce the long gestation period of the Karite tree from 20 to between five and seven years.
  • How much is Nigeria's shea butter market worth?
  • Nigeria’s shea butter market is largely untapped and can yield about $2billion annually, according to a Global Shea Alliance (GSA) briefing at the 6th International Shea Industry Conference in Abuja. Women kneading the dark brownish paste from the shea nuts.
  • How to produce improved quality shea butter to meet export requirements?
  • The preliminary study was to investigate the various process routes suitable for the production of improved quality shea butter to meet export requirements. Fresh shea fruit were collected, de-pulped, boiled and dried using methods such as sun drying, traditional oven drying and manually operated rotary drying.

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