<p></p><p>Meeting of dried fruit and nut world dried fruit by County Council international organization INC is an important annual event and attracted many international delegates participated. This year's event held in three days, from 22 - 05.24.2015 in Turkey with 921 participants from 55 countries and territories around the world, Vietnam had only 03 participants. In the second thematic session on cashew and 9th session of the nuts / dried fruit other representatives in Congress VINACAS noted some information as follows: <br></p> <p>1. General assessment of the crop, the global output of 2015/2016: Vietnam and India, the output decline in the region of West Africa, especially Ivory Coast rated output increased. Without the seasonal fluctuations in East Africa and Indonesia later this year, it forecasts global output of the season 2015/2016 was about 2.73 million tons. <br></p> <p>2. There are signs that the imbalance between the growth of raw materials (5% / year), with the rate of increase in processing capacity that Vietnam and India (8-10%). <br></p> <p>3. The production by machine requires greater attention on the quality of raw cashew nuts. So requiring the need to have an agreed international standards for crude, especially that imported from Africa. Still, the controversy about the origin. <br></p> <p>4. Machines have changed the "face" of the industry in recent years. Go with it the economic efficiency, productivity and quality are increased. But in India, the structure of an (pieces) increase, together with the quality issues in recent times have led to require careful simplify system-level standards 32 current row . <br></p> <p>5. On the issue of cashew processing in Africa, delegates said that currently does not have a convenient time for processing in Africa because of higher processing costs than processing in Vietnam and India. Besides the labor issue. <br></p> <p>6. seasonal tendency for other important grains of nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, pistachio, walnuts, ...) are the difficulties and forecast lower output this year due to climate change demand, particularly heavy fog in Turkey and drought in the US - California - the largest producing state of American agriculture (with 9/10 of the world's soil type can grow many crops) in recent years to meet have severe drought conditions weight. Also due to the use of plant protection products so much they also are experiencing a shortage of pollinating bees, investment costs for feed, rent bees for almond pollination up to tens of millions of dollars each year. <br></p> <p>7. It seems that the demand for grain is growing globally in a sustainable manner when multiple report shows the effectiveness of research programs and communication on the nuts, and psychologically healthy eating health benefits of consumers in the US and European countries (eg Mediterranean cuisine, ...). The output of grain consumption in China and India is also increasing and this is the main market for US goods almonds. <br></p> <p>8. American customers are very interested in the quality of imports and the traceability of goods. They are expected to invest a few large plants in Vietnam to concentrate source, to meet the increasingly stringent standards of the FDA. Besides one of the largest North American customer has recommended granting VINACAS should organize quality certification mark goods "VINACAS Seal" for each standard on the market American schools, in order to create greater confidence for US customers and organizations FDA, AFI for Vietnam Cashew origin. <br></p> <p>9. Noting sideline INC Congress in 2015, a large number of US customers European and predicted that if the market does not have these unexpected events, the price of cashew nuts this year may remained stable at around +3.6 USD / lb (FOB). <br></p> <p>10. A large number of customers in North America, Europe and India are interested in Vietnam market, especially in this situation India processing conditions expected to decline. So customer event in June Conference 11/2015 in the city. HCM will be a good opportunity for customers through visits and meetings<br></p><p></p>