A workshop which is part of the launch of the 2024 cotton-cashew campaign. It also involves taking an operational assessment of the functioning of these monitoring committees, identifying the difficulties these committees faced during the past campaign and propose solutions for better orientation of marketing monitoring activities for the new 2024 campaign. This meeting is also a framework to raise awareness among professional players in the cashew sector on good harvest and post-harvest techniques (collection, drying, sorting and storage) in order to improve and preserve the quality of raw cashew nuts. Details from Bamba Sory At this workshop, the representative of the Director General of the Cotton and Cashew Council, Adama Coulibaly, took the opportunity to highlight the good quality achieved by the cashew sector since the 2011 reform. “Côte d'Ivoire has seen its production increased from 400,000 tonnes in 2011 to 1,200,000 tonnes in 2023, or 25% of the world volume. Our country has become the world's leading producer of cashew nuts and the world's leading exporter of raw cashew nuts with more than 800,000 tonnes. These results were only possible thanks to the political will of the government and the combined efforts of all the key players in the sector,†said Bamba Sory. Before indicating that with a turnover of more than 600 billion FCFA/year, the cashew sector generates an annual income of more than 300 billion FCFA to more than 400,000 producers. While welcoming the political will of the government of Côte d'Ivoire and the combined efforts of all the key players in the sector which made its results possible. The representative of the Director General of the Cotton and Cashew Council also welcomed the various monitoring committees of the eight departments covered by the Bouaké regional delegation as well as the staff of this decentralized service of the general management of the Cotton and Cashew Council. Cashew which constitutes, according to him, the linchpin of the marketing of raw cashew nuts. Biba Coulibaly’s advice Before him, Biba Coulibaly, regional delegate of the Cotton and Cashew Council of Bouaké, in his opening message, raised awareness among players in the cashew sector on the advantages linked to clean, well-dried cashew nut production. and well sorted, but also and above all on the consequences of the use of chemicals in cashew plantations and on raw cashew nuts. “We urge you to implement and scrupulously respect the marketing provisions, in particular those linked to the quality of the products and the minimum farm gate price set at 275 FCFA/kg against 315 FCFA in 2023,†he said. -she says.