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The Dutch food giant Unilever has given a grant to begin the domestication of Allanblackia floribunda. It wants to use the tree seeds to produce high quality food oil. The project, codenamed 'Novella', has already got under way in Tanzania, where World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) staff have begun collecting fruit from trees in three populations.
The nuts of the Allanblackia tree, which is found in
The forests of Central and West Africa, produce a particularly fine oil, though in the past 50 years this source has been neglected in favour of other, more
Easily produced food oils. For this reason, very little is known about Allanblackia, at least in terms of commercial potential.
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SPEARSON LIMITED
GHANA.