The latest news from the African cashew industry.
No dia 19 de março de 2015, o Centro de Recursos Comerciais (CRCA) do Ato para o Crescimento e de Oportunidades para a África (AGOA) foi lançado oficialmente na Câmara de Comércio e da Indústria do Gana (CCIG), localizada em Acra, no Gana. O CRCA é um esforço conjunto entre a CCIG e o Centro da USAID para o Comércio da África Ocidental (THN). O...
read moreRepresentatives of the Ghana Cashew Industry Stakeholders have agreed on GH¢2.70 per kilogramme as the starting price for Raw Cashew Nuts (RCN) in Ghana in the 2015 cashew season. This is the first time the players in the industry have come together to set a common price for the beans....
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A Aliança Africana do Caju (ACA) recebeu uma nova concessão de fundos do Fundo de Comércio para a África do Banco Africano de Desenvolvimento (AfTra), a fim de implantar um programa extensivo de assistência técnica a processadores de caju em 8 países nas Áfricas Oriental e Ocidental.
A concessão de fundos apoia as atividades da ACA que têm como objetivo a criação de mais de 2 mil novos...
read moreThe European Union has committed to supplying 1.5 million euros to projects based in Guinea-Bissau that improve the livelihoods of small-scale cashew farmers. Approximately half of this amount is dedicated entirely to producers who seek to strengthen the quality and quantity of their production.
To read more, please visit the Macau Hub site...
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...
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...
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