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Why Nigeria Has a Shea Nut Problem

For the next six months, during Nigeria’s shea nut export ban, they hope to figure out how to produce more lucrative shea-based products. Nigeria’s Shea Nut Production. While Nigeria grows 40 percent of the world’s shea nuts that are used in products that range from beauty cream to ice cream, it receives just one percent of the $6.5 billion global market. The problem is the value that industry could add. Only then would they produce the oil for shea butter that comes from mashing, roasting, and boiling the nuts. Nigeria’s vice-president says the export ban will help the women that collect the wild shea nuts, and plant and harvest them. ….[READ]

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