small shea nuts seed crushing oil refinery plant in kenya

   
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  • small shea nuts seed crushing oil refinery plant in kenya
How are shea nuts processed?

Once enough shea nuts have been collected, along with the requisite firewood and water, the most common forms of postharvest processing treatments can begin. This leads to production of dry shea kernels, which are traditionally processed into shea butter or can be traded for industrial processing.

What is a shea nut kernel?

The kernel is the oil-bearing material that can be obtained by processing the shea nut fruit. The fruit primarily undergoes several processes - de-pulping, boiling, drying, deshelling, winnowing and sorting - to obtain the kernel from which the shea butter is extracted. Mechanical processing technology

Will Burkina be able to export shea nuts?

With Ghana¡¯s eighth shea factory and Burkina¡¯s first major (> 10,000 SETs annually) processing plant now in operation, it is soon expected that, within just seven of the key shea exporting nations, there will soon be the capacity to process the entire current export crop of shea nuts.

How many tons of dry shea nut are produced a year?

Current estimates suggest that about one million tons of dry kernel are traditionally processed and consumed locally, and between 200 and 500 thousand tons of dry shea nut or kernel equivalent (shea nut equivalent tons¡ªSETs¡ªwhether extracted or fractionated, into butter or stearin, within or outside Africa) are annually traded for export. 5.1.2.