Ghana earns $378 million from raw cashew nuts exports

Ghana earned $378 million from the sale of 110 tonnes of raw cashew nuts in 2018.

The amount represented 43 per cent of the total revenue obtained from non-traditional export commodities in the country.

The Director of Crop Services of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Mr Seth Osei-Akoto, announced this at the opening of a one-week technical upscaling development training programme on cashew value chain promotion in Sunyani yesterday.

Seventy-two participants, made up of tutors from agriculture training institutions in Ghana are taking part in the training programme to ensure that they acquire the right knowledge in order to pass it on to potential trainees who enrol in their institutions.

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