THE SHEA BUTTER VALUE CHAIN Le Hub Rural
Mechanized processing in West Africa yields 3040% of shea butter from raw nuts. Together, processing plants located in Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Ghana and Cote d''Ivoire have the capacity to convert 162,000 t of nuts into about 50,000 t of shea butter, at an extraction rate of 31%. More efficient, fully