However, cashews arriving from major resource regions, such as the Ivory Coast, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Tanzania, reach the majority of consumers from a single buyer.

TANZANIA : PRIME Minister Kassim Majaliwa has said that the government is determined to revive cashew processing factories to boost the value of the crop.

Francis Alfred, Cashew nut Board of Tanzania’s director-general, has attributed the increase in price to low yields occasioned by the recent El-Niño phenomenon in southern region. He said Tanzania ...

Cashews are a major export crop for Tanzania and a significant source of income for many small farmers. The East African country produces about 200,000 tons of cashews a year and is considered one ...

Cashews were Tanzania's top foreign exchange earner last year, bringing in $90.2 million for 121,207 tons sold. Officials had forecast that Tanzanian farmers would sell 132,000 tons of nuts this ...

Tanzania liberalized the cashew market in 1994 after production fell to a low of 17,000 tons during the 1989-90 season. The reforms allowed buyers to deal directly with farmers for the first time.

Cashew nut shells can be used as an environmentally friendly way of producing potential sunscreens, reveals a new study. The findings of the study are published in the European Journal of Organic ...

The African cashew industry employs three million households, but is dogged by depressed prices and dwindling production. While in the 1970s Mozambique and Tanzania were the main global producers ...