turnkey project shea nut oil mill for business in ghana
- Product Using: Producing Shea Nut Oil
- Type: Shea Nut Oil Mill Project
- Main Machinery: Shea Nut Oil Mill Project Machine
- Model Number: Jinxin cooking oil product project
- Voltage: 220v / 380v or local voltage
- Power(W): Depend on cooking oil product project capacity
- Dimension(L*W*H): Depend on cooking oil product project capacity
- Weight: Depend on cooking oil product project capacity
- Certification: ISO9001
- Product name: cooking oil product project
- Electric Consumption: Depend on cooking oil product project capacity
- Handling capacity: Depend on cooking oil product project capacity
- Advantage: High efficiency
- Raw material: Vegetable Seed
- Export markets: All over the world
- Delivery time: 25-45 Days
- Machine color: Depend on customers' request
- Supplier Suitable for: cooking and other plants seed
- Project Location: ghana
Shea Nut Extraction Plant - A Case Study - Kumar Metal Industries
Shea nut Case Study. Creating time, cost and manpower economies in shea nut processing. Our client, Ghana Speciality Fats industries limited (GSFIL), is a joint venture enterprise between agri-processing leaders Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and Wilmar Holdings. Since 2006, GSFIL has grown to become the largest processor of shea nuts in Ghana
The West African nation's shea nut industry is looking for other uses of the raw product to nurture economic opportunities. 04:54 - Source: CNN. Marketplace Africa 16 videos.
GHANA: a sustainable shea sourcing project to support 13,000 women
The context. In the vast northern Ghana, fourth largest shea kernel producing country in the world, shea is an economic opportunity for 470, 000 women farmers. But the challenges they need to face are many: in this poorest region of the country, scarce rainfall has led to poor land, unpredictable yields, and food insecurity.
Shea butter, known as “women’s gold,” supports female empowerment, backs many U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), enhances the global supply chain and promotes self-sufficient development in Southeastern Ghana. To make the most of this versatile nut, Bunge Loders Croklaan (BLC), “the specialty oils and fats business of [U.S
Reducing Poverty among Women by Strengthening the Shea Value Chain
The production of shea nuts and butter are among the most accessible income-generating activities for rural women in Northern Ghana and contribute immensely to household food security.[2] More than 80 percent of activities in the region’s shea value chain are carried out by women,[3] including shea nut picking, processing and marketing.
Ghana Speciality Fats will buy shea nuts from northern Ghana, part of the shea nut belt which spans 20 African countries between the northern Sahara deserts and the southern tropical rainforests. Shea nut trees grow semi-wild and women have harvested them for decades, pounding them into butter and oil to use in cooking or as a moisturising cream.
THE ‘HUNT’ FOR SHEA NUTS: EMPOWERING WOMEN THROUGH SHEA IN THE FACE
erations in rural Ghana, and this knowledge has been passed on from generation to gen-eration (Chalfin 2004, Lewicki 1974 Elias and Carney 2007). Shea nuts provide income and nutrition for the family. Women undertake shea nut collection and processing in order to provide nutritious oil for home cooking and to generate income from sale of
About us. Ghana Nuts Company Limited, is a prominent agricultural processor in Ghana. The company was founded in the year 2001. We produce and export a wide variety of edible oils in the shea and soya value chains, along with animal feed ingredients. The highest grade raw materials are used in the production of our line of high-quality goods.
Prospects and constraints of shea butter processing: Evidence from
Ghana has the potential to produce 200,000 metric tons of Shea nuts per annum. However, the estimated quantity of she nuts collected in Ghana per annum is only 130,000 metric tons.
The shea industry generates employment and income for about a million rural women in northern Ghana involved in picking nuts and marketing processed shea kernel and shea butter. Major shea activities involve picking or gathering fruits and nuts, processing nuts into butter, and distributing and marketing shea commodities.
- How does the Shea industry work in Ghana?
- The shea industry generates employment and income for about a million rural women in northern Ghana involved in picking nuts and marketing processed shea kernel and shea butter. Major shea activities involve picking or gathering fruits and nuts, processing nuts into butter, and distributing and marketing shea commodities.
- Who is the largest Shea Nut processor in Ghana?
- Since 2006, GSFIL has grown to become the largest processor of shea nuts in Ghana, manufacturing shea oils and butter. With a processing capability of upwards of 25,000 tonnes a year, making it the biggest shea nut processor in Ghana.
- What is the business relationship between Ghana nuts & foreign processing companies?
- There is a strong network of business relationship between a number of local firms and foreign processing multinational companies in the global value chain for the shea products (see Fig. 4). Ghana Nuts Limited (GNL) is one of the largest shea processing firms in West Africa. GNL produces and exports crude shea butter as its main product line.
- What is the Shea value chain in Ghana?
- In summary, the shea global value chain map in Ghana consists of several upstream actors, mainly women shea collectors, who process shea nuts into kernels and supply to aggregators. Aggregators mobilise huge volumes of raw shea kernels from rural Northern Ghana and transport the commodity to industrial processors and exporters in peri-urban Ghana.
- Who supports women in northern Ghana producing shea kernels & butter?
- First, value chain influencers, international and domestic NGOs, and development agencies [10 ]; CARE, SNV, UNDP), have actively supported women in Northern Ghana producing shea kernels and butter for domestic purpose, to shift from traditional production methods and subsistence, to improved methods for commercialization of the commodity.
- Where are shea kernels processed in Ghana?
- Shea kernels from the parkland and farms of rural Ghana are moved to processing centres in Tamale, Buipe, Techiman, and Tema, for value addition. From Techiman and Buipe, crude shea butter, shea grits and stearin are moved to Tema for exports. Tema is the final destination for in-country flow of shea products.
