Shea Nut

Castor Bean

Ricinus communis — Ethiopia, Kenya

Coconut

Fresh coconuts. Copra, desiccated and the pressed oil are separate articles with their own headings — see the forms.

Cotton Seed

By-product of cotton ginning; oil and cake

Crude Palm Oil

Pressed from the fruit of the oil palm. Exchange-traded in its own right (MPOB / Bursa Malaysia).

Groundnut (Peanut)

Arachis hypogaea — Uganda, DRC, Chad, Cameroon, Tanzania, Burundi

Jojoba

Simmondsia chinensis — Kenya; emerging arid-land oil crop

Linseed (Flax)

Linum usitatissimum — Ethiopia

Niger Seed (Noug)

Guizotia abyssinica — nearly uniquely Ethiopian; used for oil and bird feed

Oil Palm (Nuts & Kernels)

The palm fruit and kernels as harvested. The pressed oils are separate commodities — see crude-palm-oil and palm-kernel-oil.

Palm Kernel Oil

Pressed from the kernel rather than the fruit. A separate market from crude palm oil, priced independently of it.

Safflower

Carthamus tinctorius — Kenya, Ethiopia

Sesame Seed

Sesamum indicum — Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Chad, CAR, South Sudan

Shea Butter

Fat pressed or extracted from the shea kernel. Graded by the African regional standard into three types by end use — cosmetic, food industry and soap — on moisture, free fatty acids, peroxide value and insoluble impurities. Its buyers do not buy nuts.

Soybean

Glycine max — Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Tanzania

Sunflower Seed

Helianthus annuus — Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia