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    Free Fatty Acids (FFA) = < - 6%
    Moisture Content = < - 7%
    Oil Content = ->45%
    Latex = 4-10%

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Knowing the shea nut

Shea -- known in the local Dioula language as karité ("life") -- generally grows wild, with

little need for any special cultivation or nourishment. Almost all parts of the tree have

some practical use. The bark is an ingredient in traditional medicines against certain

childhood ailments and minor scrapes and cuts. The shell of the nuts can repel mosquitoes.

Above all, the fruity part of the nut, when crushed, yields a vegetable oil that can be

used in cooking, soap-making and skin and hair care. Harvesting the nuts and making the

butter have traditionally been women's work. Men usually are involved only in transport and

marketing.
Unprocessed shea nuts have been exported to Europe for decades, primarily for the

manufacture of chocolate in Switzerland and the UK.

 

Shea Nuts
Shea nut is the seed of the shea fruit that grows on the shea tree. The shea generally

grows wild and its an indigenous tree species to many countries in west africa The Shea

fruit fall to the ground during harvesting period Our brands

They are then buried in pits which causes the pulp to ferment and disintegrate and produces

enough heat to prevent germination. The Shea nuts are dried for a few days and are later

shelled and winnowed, usually by hand. The kernels are dried further to reduce moisture

content from about 40 percent to about 7 percent.
Seemingly Buyers specify their own quality standards for purchases of shea nuts and shea

butter. The following is a benchmark for the composition of the shea nut required for

export/import:

FOB Price: Min. order Quantity of shea butter: 1 Ton/Tons USD 1800-2000 Per Tonne

 

With a head office in Ouagadougou, capital city of Burkina Faso, and our Harvesting plant in  Bobo Dioulasso, second city of Burkina Faso and main agriculural production area we are specialized in the production and trading of cotton, shea nuts and Shea butter.

 

with a humble beginning "Songtaab-Yalgré cotton & Shea Ltd" founded by  "Fatou Ouédraogo" and now mannaged by his son "Fatai Ouedraogo" the company has grown to become Burkina Faso major exporter of cotton and Shea products.

 Unrefined shea butter, pure and natural with all the bio-actives. Our shea butter has not been refined and stripped through chemical or physical refining process. No colors or dyes added. Fresh and clean shea butter. The highest quality shea butter suitable for beauty and cosmetic purposes as well as other purposses. Our shea butter is filtered down to 5 micron so that there are no specs or dirt in the product.

@"Songtaab-Yalgré cotton & Shea Ltd" we have a sense of responsiblity to our community.

Our enterprise has given the women improve

d skills and knowledge

in the sustainable

use and management of shea tree products, give

n that a major challeng

e is to protect the

existing trees. In addition,

it educates the general

public about environmental

sustainability, since it is

illegal to pick unrip

e nuts (mature nuts fall to the ground). This

enables them to generate greater income from

harvesting, processing and selling shea and

at the same time provides an incentive for them

to conserve and manage their trees. As a

result, skills and knowledge re

lated to the sustainable use

and management of shea tree

products will be improved in the communities.

 

Knowing your "Cotton"

Introduction

Cotton is a vegetable fibre obtained from the mature capsule of the cotton plant, a shrub about 40 cm high, with leaves and flowers of a red or yellow colour. When the flower is fecundated it loses its petals and within 25 days a capsule surrounded by a leaf called bract grows. The capsule is sustained by a cup and has a drop shape rounded at the lower extremity. Inside the capsule there are from five to eight seeds on which the fibre developed. When the capsule is mature it opens into four parts showing the cotton ball. On the same plant the maturation of the capsules does not occur simultaneously, therefore more passages are required for the harvest of the cotton. The harvest is carried out a week after maturation. The first operation after harvesting is husking, which permits the removal of the fibres from the seeds. Then the cotton is carded and combed so as to eliminate all the impurities. 4000 fibers is the seed average. Staple length = 1/8" - 2.5" (0.32 - 6.35cm) -  for manufacturing yarns, fabrics, 7/8" - 11/4" (2.22 - 3.18cm) is standard. 

We grow the best cotton in "Songtaab-Yalgré cotton & Shea Ltd"

In Burkina Faso, sub-Saharan Africa's largest cotton producer, cotton production has grown 19 percent a year over the past 10 years, boosting GDP growth and a huge part of that success is because of Songtaab-Yalgré cotton & Shea Ltd

Cotton is both the “heart” and the hope of Burkina’s economy

Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world; it ranks 183 out of 187 countries in the UN Human Development Index. The chances of improvements in people’s conditions of life are decreased by the unfavourable landlocked position of the country, its low rainfall, its lack of mineral resources and its low educational level and productivity. Cotton is both the “heart” and the hope of Burkina’s economy. 

Knowing more about the "Shea" and the process.

 Shea nuts are known in the

local Dioula language as

karite

(life). They grow mostly in

the wild with little need for any special cu

ltivation. The shea nut tree grows in abundance

and is one of the few renewable resources in

the semi-arid Sahel region of West Africa. It

is found in a belt about 300 kilometres wide

extending from Mali through Burkina Faso

to Ghana, Togo and Benin. This ‘shea belt’ is

the only place in the world where the tree

grows. The largest concentration is found in

Burkina Faso, across more than 80 per cent

of the country. The shea tree has a very long lif

espan of up to 200 years. It produces fruit

after its fifteenth year, but does not reach full

production until it is 25 years old. The shea

tree has many uses: the bark is used as an

ingredient in many traditional medicines

against childhood ailments and

in the treatment of minor

scrapes and cuts. The shell

serves as a mosquito repellent – vital in a

region where malaria kills thousands of people

a year. The shea tree also helps prevent wind

erosion and adds organic matter back to the

soil. The nuts are processed

to obtain shea butter, which

is used as cooking oil, for

making soap, as medicine, and in cosmetics.

In many western countries shea butter is

highly prized for its superb h

ealing and moisturising properti

es and is widely used in

creams, sunscreen lotions and conditioners and

in the treatment of bur

ns and muscle pain.

It is also used in chocolat

e manufacturing, since it comple

ments cocoa very well, and is

processed into baking fat, margarin

e, and cocoa butter substitutes.

Traditionally, shea nut harvesting and pro

cessing are rural women’s work. The women

would individually collect the

nuts of the wild-growing shea

tree and conve

rt them to

shea butter in a very labour-int

ensive process. Only small

quantities of shea nuts were

processed into butter, however. The women

would grind the nuts by

hand, press them –

often walking several miles to a press in anot

her village and back to

carry out this stage

of the process – and boil and filter the oil

Here in "Songtaab-Yalgré cotton Shea nuts & butter association" our workers are our strength.

 Agriculture is the main economic activity.

About 80 per cent of the population lives on

subsistence agriculture. It contributes more

than one-third of GDP, employs about 80 per

cent of the labour force, and is the main s

ource of income for rural communities. Burkina

Faso’s mineral resources include deposits

of gold and manganese, but these remain

underexploited. The industrial se

ctor, contributing about 20

per cent of GDP, comprises

mainly textiles, artisan manufacture, and small-scale agricultural processing.

Traditionally, the main export crops are live

stock and cotton. These

are referred to as

men’s cash crops, although women provide mo

st of the labour. Women are primarily

responsible for growing subsistence crops such

as millet, maize and rice, and also for

collecting shea nuts for export.