Cashew (Anacardium occidentale) tree is a tropical evergreen that starts fruit bearing after 3-4 years of plantation. As fruit, cashew tree produces cashew apple and cashew nut. Cashew apple is considered as...
Cashew Industry News
The latest news from the African cashew industry.
La Commission de la Communauté économique des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) tient du 18 au 21 avril à Abidjan en Côte d’Ivoire, une série de rencontres sur...
La Côte d’Ivoire étant la première productrice mondiale d’anacarde avec une récolte de 725.000 tonnes en début de campagne 2016, souhaite maintenir voire améliorer ses performances à travers des...
Avec la baisse du prix bord champ du cacao, la Côte d’Ivoire pourrait-elle compter sur la noix de cajou dont le coût du kilogramme croît pour tirer son...
Every cashew season, the excise department struggles to auction cashew zones and industry stakeholders blame lessened competition in feni distillation, besides uncertainties linked to cashew yield and...
On the 20th of April, 2017, Ministers of Industry and Agriculture from West Africa met at the Radisson Blu hotel in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Under the auspices of ECOWAS, with the support of ONUDI, the meeting was to discuss the development of the cashew industry in West Africa. Mr. Jean Claude Brou, the Minister of Mines and Industry of Côte d’Ivoire, opened the meeting with a...
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On 10th March 2017, a team from the African Cashew Alliance met with the Honorable Augustine Collins Ntim, Member of Parliament of Offinso North Constituency, Ashanti region who was recently appointed as the Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development. The ACA Interim Managing Director Ernest Mintah and his team used the opportunity to introduce the Alliance and...
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On the 7th of April 2017, ACA’s Head of Sector Organization & Advocacy, Olivier Kabre and Communications Assistant Blessing Okam were invited to attend an assessment Stakeholders’ Roundtable Discussion held by the Enabling Environment for Food Security Project, which is being implemented by...
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To help achieve the vision of the African Cashew Sector and increase the level of in-country value addition in Africa, the Director General of CCA, Dr. Adama Coulibaly has accepted the request of the African Cashew Alliance (ACA) to allow its members to export raw cashew nuts across land borders.
Specifically, Dr. Coulibaly stated "... for the supply of raw nuts...
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