Just stocking the nuts costs Lahiru more than $65,000 each year. Lahiru: Because cashews are a seasonal fruit. It is not something like coconut, in which you can get a harvest every month.

Cashew farming in India: economic force, job provider, global exporter, facing challenges, government initiatives for growth.

“Many of the high-cost nuts, such as macadamia or cashew nuts, require manual labor to separate from the tree. They may also be sorted and graded by hand, which adds additional costs. With fresh nuts, ...

Why is cashew butter so expensive? Cashews are pricier than peanuts due to their limited growth regions and intricate harvesting process. There are also very few cashews per tree compared to other ...

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has sacked both the agriculture and trade ministers, and threatened to deploy the military over a cashew nut crisis. Traders have been given a Monday deadline to ...

[Nehemiah Okwembah, Standard] Cashew nut farmers at the Coast should expect better prices in the next harvest season in January and February when the new Sh240 million European Union-funded ...

Cashew nuts are Guinea-Bissau's biggest export crop but times are tough for farmers, as photojournalist Ricci Shryock reports. Alciony Fernandez is from a family of cashew growers and has carried ...

TSA is constructing a cashew nut processing factory in Tezo, Kilifi County that will be ready in February next year when the harvest season picks. It will have a processing capacity of 5,000 ...

Uon Silot, president of the Cashew Nut Association of Cambodia (CAC), told The Post on October 21 that the export ... Silot added that although there is a large cashew harvest each year, the ...