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  • Cashew sector: Côte d'Ivoire aims for more than one million tonnes in 2022 02/07/2022

    Feb 7th, 2022

    A delegation from the Cotton and Cashew Council carried out from February 1 to 4, a mission to raise awareness among stakeholders inside the country. As a prelude to the official launch of the 2022 campaign for the cashew sector, scheduled for February 8, the Cotton and Cashew Council has just carried out an awareness mission for the various players in the sector in the Worodougou and Béré regions. Precisely in Séguéla and Bouandougou (department of Mankono). Led by Dr Ouattara Mariam, director of production at the Cotton and Cashew Council, this mission made it possible to teach good farming practices to producers and buyers in order to increase their income. The production manager was accompanied by several experts, representing the technical and financial partners of the Cotton and Cashew Council as well as the administrative authorities of the two regions. At each meeting with the actors, Dr Ouattara Mariam insisted on the need to produce quality cashew. “Côte d'Ivoire has won the production bet by making cashew nuts, the second agricultural export product after cocoa. National cashew nut production reached 968,676 tons in 2021, accounting for nearly a quarter of global production. We hope to reach one million tonnes in 2022. But we must also focus on the quality of our products,” she recommended. To this end, she called on producers to commit to the production of well-dried and well-sorted cashew nuts. “Quality is an essential variable in all competitive strategies. It contributes substantially to profitability and to the consolidation of our market position. This gives it a leading role in the industrial battle. It is for this reason that each actor must play his role, because quality remains the determining factor in the selling and buying prices of cashew nuts, both nationally and internationally,” he added. she insists. Adding that the lower the quality of the product, the more the sector records a loss. “I urge growers to follow all good harvest and post-harvest practices before marketing their produce. In particular, you must separate the apples from the nuts without leaving any residue; dry and sort the nuts well; store them in appropriate places while waiting to market them; favor mechanical control for the difficulties linked to diseases and pests of cashew trees,” she said. For buyers, exporters and millers, the production director of the Cotton and Cashew Council also made recommendations. "I invite buyers, exporters and millers to respect the minimum farm gate price of 305 FCfa/kg set by the State of Côte d'Ivoire, to buy only well-dried and well-sorted products and to respect all the practical arrangements for marketing. Scrupulous compliance with these provisions will allow each of you to benefit from the fruits of the reform desired by the State of Côte d'Ivoire and to make the cashew sector more competitive for the happiness of all,” she continued.


    Source: https://www.fratmat.info/
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