<p></p><p>The illegal export of cashew nut in Ivory Coast, the world's largest producer, to neighboring Ghana knows no respite with nearly 15,000 tons of illicit goods seized at the border between the two countries within two months after the opening of the 2016 campaign. <br></p> <p>The latest seizure of more than 10,000 tons was made in Friday night by the Ivorian army in the departments of Bondoukou and Transua (Northeast) border with Ghana, have we learned Monday from local security source . <br></p> <p>This dragnet of the Eastern Battalion security (BSE) brings to nearly 15,000 tons, the production of illicit export cashews entry at the border since the opening of the campaign in Côte d'Ivoire on 10 February . <br></p> <p>The Bondoukou region is not only one of the largest cashew producing area in Côte d'Ivoire, but also the largest fraudulent exit cashews to Ghana, particularly, because of the porosity borders. <br></p> <p>For four years, the government decided to go to war against the leakage of Ivorian production of cashew nuts, which reached a record of more than 100,000 tons in 2012 representing a quarter of the national production estimated at 450,000 tons in the same year . <br></p> <p>A workshop, followed by awareness campaigns, helped to reflect on the strategies to be in place in order to "put an end or at least to limit the phenomenon to a reasonable level" from a diagnosis of the causes of the smuggling of cashews to Ghana. <br></p> <p>According to a specialist in the sector, the situation is due to more remunerative prices and transport costs significantly cheaper in Ghana. <br></p> <p>"The farmer who sends its output to the port of Abidjan expense 600,000 CFA francs for transportation against 150,000 francs for the farmer who sells his produce in Ghana, where the cashew kilo varies between 400 and 500 CFA francs against 250 350 CFA francs in Abidjan, "he explains. <br></p> <p>Given the scale and persistence of the phenomenon, the government initiated a reform of the sector with the aim of enabling producers to take better advantage of the marketing of their products through a marketing system that their offer "guaranteed minimum price". <br></p> <p>For the current season, the government announced a "mandatory price floor" purchasing producers 350 CFA francs ($ 0.7) per kilogram against 275 CFA ($ 0.55) in the previous campaign. <br></p> <p>Ivorian production of cashew nuts increased from 565 000 tons in 2014 to 702 000 tons in 2015, making the Ivory Coast the world's largest cashew producer followed by India (650,000 tons, 22% of world production) and Vietnam (325,000 tons, 11%). <br></p> <p>The Ivorian government wants to reach one million tons by 2020 and meet the challenge of the low level of local processing, 6% in 2015, with the aim of "being almost 100% processing of cashew nuts 2020 ". <br></p> <p>The government relies on an open factory in 2012 in Bouake (center) and two under construction in Korhogo (north) and Bondoukou (Northeast).<br></p><p></p>