for human oil consumption shea nut processing oil machine in afghanistan

                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
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  • 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.
  • How much processed shea butter is exported from Ghana?
  • The volume of processed shea butter exported from Ghana has almost doubled from under 20,000 metric tons in 2009 to approximately 40,000 metric tons in 2013. The processing methods and technologies used at the microlevel are characterized by high consumption of water, fuelwood, and labor per unit output of crude shea butter.
  • How is shea kernel obtained?
  • The shea kernel is obtained from processing fresh shea fruits and further processed into shea butter. Manual and semi-mechanized methods are employed in processing shea kernel into butter. Major inputs are; kernel, water, energy, and time and outputs are; shea butter and wastewater.
  • How to optimise shea butter production by mechanical extraction?
  • Shea butter (SB) production by mechanical extraction (ME) was optimised by box-behnken (BB) experimental design of response surface methodology (RSM). The process parameters studied (with their ranges) were sample weight (100 ¨C 200 g), temperature (60 ¨C 120C) and duration of applied pressure (10 ¨C 30 min) to optimise the yield of SB.
  • Is shea butter processed from nut sourced from inorganic and organic fields?
  • The objective of the study was to compare selected physical and chemical composition of shea butter processed from nut sourced from inorganic and organic fields. The treatments were O (shea butter processed from nut picked from organic fields) and N (shea butter processed from nuts picked from inorganic fields).
  • How is shea butter extracted?
  • Extraction of shea butter from shea kernels can be done via either water extraction i.e. boiling with water, mechanical extraction, solvent extraction, or a combination of these processes. The traditional method of how shea butter is made involves water extraction ¨C boiling the shea kernels with water and skimming off the released oils.