The departmental representative of the Cotton and Cashew Council, Koné Aboubacar, launched the 2022 marketing campaign for cashew nuts, for the year 2022. According to the departmental delegate, the farm gate price is 305 FCFA/kg for nuts that are well dried, well sorted, free of foreign matter. “The farm gate price is a minimum floor price below which no commercial transaction is authorizedâ€, he insisted, Saturday February 19, 2022, at the Madinani multipurpose center. The obligatory floor price for the inland store was set at 330 FCFA/kg, 359 FCFA at the factory, 374 FCFA for the dry ports and 389 FCFA for the port stores. Producers have been urged, with the support of the monitoring committee, to strictly respect the various prices set by the government. They must form a cooperative to fully benefit from the fruit of their labor and above all to demand from buyers and trackers an after-sales purchase receipt. “We will have to denounce any buyer who does not respect the price on the ground, we will automatically intervene as an agent in charge of regulation for the reimbursement of the sums subtracted from the fixed 305 FCFA†asked Koné Aboubacar. The production of the department of Madinani ranks second among producers of cashew nuts in the Kabadougou region. During the last campaign, the price of the 2021 cashew nut was 9184,178 kg sold in the department of Madinani with 260 trucks which carried out loads from 4481 producers recognized by the regulatory body.