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...
Cashew Industry News
The latest news from the African cashew industry.
20 Apr, 2017
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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13 Apr, 2017
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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13 Apr, 2017
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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10 Apr, 2017
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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10 Apr, 2017
Pour la toute première fois, sur le marché mondial de l'anacarde, le prix de l'amande de cajou origine Vietnam a dépassé celle origine Inde, que ce soit pour les amandes entières ou brisées, souligne Rongead dans sa...
7 Apr, 2017
On March 30th 2017, ACA participated in the Annual Marketing Forum organized by International Relief & Development (IRD) in Dakar, Senegal. The forum welcomed more than 100 people from Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea Bissau and ACA was represented by the Assistant Manager for Business Services Wermé Mahamadou, who delivered a presentation on advantages and opportunities of cashew processing... read more
7 Apr, 2017
After the price of cashew – 500 F/kg was fixed, during the cashew marketing campaign, – President Patrice Talon and his government has adopted new measures in the marketing of cashew nuts. At a press briefing on Wednesday, April 6, 2017, the Minister of State, Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Pascal Irénée Koupaki said ‘the government has banned the export of raw...
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6 Apr, 2017
5 Apr, 2017
From the 1st to the 7th of April, ACA’s Chief Business Services Officer Sunil Dahiya and executives of the Cashew Industry Association of Ghana (CIAG) Mr. Nii Smith and Mr. John Addaquay visited cashew processing factories in Ghana. This visit is part of ACA‘s technical support and assistance to the cashew sector in Ghana via the national industry association. Its main...
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