The latest news from the African cashew industry.
Cashew farmers in Nigeria have expressed optimism that the year 2018 would usher good yields for the industry as their expectations fall nothing short of a bumper that may boost output by 10 per cent.
Anga Sotonye, National Publicity Secretary of National Cashew Association of Nigeria (NCAN) made this known while speaking with INDEPENDENT, stressing that from all...
read moreThe National Cashew Association of Nigeria says Nigeria earned N144.7 billion ($402 million) from the export of raw cashew nuts to Vietnam and other countries in 2017.
Sotonye Anga, the spokesperson for the association, said this on...
The auction of 1,164 cashew zones spread across 11 talukas is set to begin from January 17. The excise department has fixed the dates for auctioning of these zones and is keeping its fingers crossed anticipating...
December 2017- The International Nut and Dried Fruit Council (INC) has launched its 2018 Annual Call for Research Projects (300,000 Eur) and Annual Call for Promotion and Dissemination Projects to help better understand the health benefits of nuts and dried fruits and spread...
read moreThe Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority, Gifty Klenam has launched the national cashew mass spraying exercise in the Wenchi municipality of the Brong Ahafo region to increase...
The figure represents a 23.8 percent rise compared to the value in 2016.The largest consumers of Vietnamese cashew were the US, the Netherlands and China with market shares of 35 percent, 15.6 percent and 12.9 percent, respectively. Strong growth in export revenue was seen in Russia (56.3 percent), the Netherlands (44.7 percent), Thailand (41.4...
read moreAccording to preliminary statistics of the General Department of Customs, in the first 11 months of 2017, exports of cashew nuts of the country increased 1.1% in volume and 23.7% in turnover over the same period. last year, reached 323,834 tons, equivalent to 3.21 billion USD; In particular, in November exports decreased 3.3% in volume and decreased 2.6% in turnover compared with...
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read moreThus, for Binh Thuan province to achieve the same cashew production as while the area of cashewnut has not increased (about 17 thousand hectares), it is necessary to increase productivity from 2 to 2.5 times compared with current at the rate of 12 to 15 quintals per hectare. Binh Thuan is one of...
