The latest news from the African cashew industry.
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Adopting Good Agricultural Practices results in better quality of raw cashew nuts while stable, reliable linkages between farmers, processors and buyers is extremely essential for the competitiveness of African cashews. These are the lessons the German...
read moreThe National Cashew Association of Nigeria (NCAN) has officially solicited assistance from the federal government to subsidize the procurement of jute bags for cashew packaging. The packing materials which are currently used most widely, polypropelene bags, negatively affect the quality of the cashew nuts. To read more, please visit the allAfrica site...
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Last week, the African Cashew Alliance celebrated the expansion of its Seal program by welcoming FoodPro, a large Nigerian processing facility, to its family of Seal-certified cashew processors. FoodPro subscribed to this unique and cutting-edge service in 2013, collaborating with ACA’s team of food safety and quality experts to finally become certified on November 13, 2014. As the...
read moreTowards reducing post-harvest losses and wastages in the cashew industry, the Kogi State Government has started upgrading warehouses in the...
read moreIn Cote d'Ivoire, cashew trees were initially planted in the northern region of the country as a mechanism to prevent soil erosion and deforestation. However, now that it has become one of the largest cashew-producing countries in the world and the economy is boosted from the sale of the raw nuts, the country may be well on its way to dominating the world's cashew industry. To read more,...
read moreThe Department of Agriculture in the Mkuranga District of Tanzania have been charged with investigating the fungus disease that appears to be plaguing the cashew trees of the Magawa village. This disease appeared for the first time in the village in 2000, but seems to have re-emerged in full force. To read more, please visit the allAfrica site...
read moreAs of October 2014, Cote d'Ivoire has produced approximately 550,000 metric tons of raw cashew, a record for Africa's highest-producing nation. Experts project the production to double within the next five years, thereby easily overtaking India as the world's largest cashew producer. To read more, please visit the China Post site...
read moreAs part of the new Nigerian cashew export strategy, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), along with the National Cashew Association of Nigeria and USAID, launched an initiative on Wednesday to scale-up cashew production within the country by over 150%, creating approximately 344,000 new jobs and over $75 million in new income. The African Cashew Alliance has been a key partner...
read moreThe government of Guinea-Bissau, in partnership with the Guinean Foundation for Enterprise and Industrial Development (Fundei), created a fund to finance projects related to the processing of cashew nuts. This fund, starting at 1.5 million euros, seeks to dissuade the export of RCN to India and to promote domestic processing and value-addition. To read more, please visit the Macau...
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