John Magufuli’s latest economic plan is, in all senses, his nuttiest. By buying up the entire cashew harvest at a near-100 percent premium, the Tanzanian president hopes to help farmers. In fact, it will only serve to...
Cashew Industry News
The latest news from the African cashew industry.
26 Nov, 2018
Bobby Thomas, director of Wondernuts Ltd, a cashewnut processing firm based in Kilifi county, has dealt in cashew for 20 years. Today, he sits in his office whiling the time away because business...
26 Nov, 2018
It is close to a week now since the shocking drama of nutty business in Tanzania unfolded, with the President of State John Magufuli admonishing the confiscation of the foreign exchange crop to save...
20 Nov, 2018
Soldiers arrived in southern Tanzania to oversee government management of the country's cashew nuts, local newspaper Citizen reported, a move ordered by President John Magufuli to protect farmers from...
20 Nov, 2018
Tanzania’s plan to buy the country’s entire 2018 cashew nut crop could lead to a global shortage, with processors in Vietnam and India likely to be ...
20 Nov, 2018
After Benin, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Togo has also adopted a tax on cashew exports, baptized Cashew Nuts Tax (PNC).
The tax which was established in line with a decree issued on October 3, 2018, amounts to CFA40 per kg of raw nuts and CFA5 for...
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19 Nov, 2018
On Thursday, 15th November 2018, stakeholders in the cashew sector witnessed the handing over ceremony of cashew processing equipment to the Association of Cashew Processors Ghana (ACPG) by the Brazilian owned Cashew processing company USIBRAS Ghana Limited. The ceremony took place at the premises of USIBRAS Ghana...
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22 Oct, 2018
AT 54, Brenda Akatama Mwanamwalye still has the vigor to contribute to the cashew industry.
Her house in Mongu’s Kambule street is bustling with people trooping in and out buying cashew seedlings or processed nuts.
Her passion and commitment towards the industry is....
2 Oct, 2018
The ACA Secretariat invites applications from individual Consultants who are interested in being Lead Facilitators of the Cashew Master Training Programme (MTP).
Terms of Reference: MTP Lead FacilitatorsBackground
In consolidation of their sector organization efforts, the African Cashew Alliance (ACA) and GIZ/ComCashew project want to consolidate the achievements, upgrade and...
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28 Sep, 2018
Mozambique will have 17 cashew processing plants with the start-up of two new units, according to the director of the Cashew Development Institute (Incaju). Ilídio Bande told Mozambican daily newspaper Notícias in...
