Shea butter business has shot up with sellers making profits of the seasonal product. Sellers of the product in the Greater Accra Region say demands for the product has gone up due to the harmattan season.
They said the rise in the patronage of Shea butter popularly known as ” nkuto” which mostly attracts a boom during harmattan season is heavily affecting their pockets.
‘Our daily sales have shot up resulting in high profit’.they told Ghanawish.com.These opportunities linger on till ending of January and will be of benefit to Shea butter sellers across the country where the harmattan is very severe.
The survey, which sought to determine the connection between harmattan and the patronage of creams also revealed that Shea butter outsold the creamy products during the dry season.
Madam Habiba , a seller at a popular Shea butter market at Madina in Accra, said the commodity was previously experiencing low patronage but with harmattan season the demand has gone up.
According to sellers the wholesale price for a sack of Shea butter was GHS 300 but the advent of the dry season has shot it to GHS 350.
