{"id":206279,"date":"2025-09-04T22:56:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-we-banned-export-of-raw-shea-nut-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:56:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:56:35","slug":"nigeria-why-we-banned-export-of-raw-shea-nut-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-we-banned-export-of-raw-shea-nut-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Why We Banned Export of Raw Shea Nut &#8211; Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">This move, he said, aims to create rural jobs, empower women, and establish Nigeria as a major player in the refined shea products market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Despite producing nearly two-fifths of global shea nuts, Nigeria earns less than 1 per cent in the $6.5 billion market, Nigeria&#8217;s Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Mr Kyari disclosed this while speaking at the Africa Food Systems Forum (#AFSForum2025) in Dakar, Senegal, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">This move, he said, aims to create rural&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509040549.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This move, he said, aims to create rural jobs, empower women, and establish Nigeria as a major player in the refined shea products market. Despite producing nearly two-fifths of global shea nuts, Nigeria earns less than 1 per cent in the $6.5 billion market, Nigeria&#8217;s Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, has said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9363,10346,5941,257,4687,393,17196,12278,40973,254],"class_list":["post-206279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-banned","tag-export","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nut","tag-raw","tag-shea","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}