4. Shea Butter

Shea grows over an estimated 1 million km2 between western Senegal and northwestern Uganda in the Sudan zone's dry savannas, woods, and parklands. According to OECD-FAO [3], Nigeria has the greatest potential for shea nut production, with high production zones in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria. Because producers, particularly women, and the private sector in nations where production capacity is not fully utilized, the potential of production capacity is not fully realized. Because producers, particularly women and the private sector in countries where shea trees grow, are not completely participating in the value addition sales of the nuts or butter, the potential of the production capacity is not fully realized. When Ghana's shea production potential is completely realized, this amount is predicted to quadruple.

*A Big Data Analytics Architecture Framework for the Production and International Trade… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.107225*
