Cashew: Ivory Coast, world leader, doubled its production in five years
Côte d'Ivoire has doubled its cashew nut production in five years, a performance achieved after reforms that have raised this agricultural country in West Africa to the world's leading producer, the official said Friday. of the sector.
"From 2013 to 2017, the cashew or cashew harvest in Côte d'Ivoire has risen from 380,000 to 711,000 tons, and production has almost doubled in five years," said Adama Coulibaly, director of the council. cotton-cashew (CCA), which manages the sector.
The country, which accounts for 22% of world production, expects a production of 750,000 tons in 2018.
According to Coulibaly, this rapid evolution is not the result of the creation of new plantations but of a government reform in 2013 that allowed "producers to make money".
"Until 2013, we gave an indicative price that was not respected field edge (field) .The cashew was sold between 25 (3ct euro) and 200 FCFA (0.30 euro) in the best of case, "said Coulibaly.
Since 2014, "the price went from 275 (0.41 euro) to 500 FCFA (0.76 euro) that day, which is very incentive for producers," he said.
The government practices a "floor price" system below which the product can not be bought.
"For the 2017 campaign, with the floor price of 500 FCFA, the producer was able to sell his crop up to 715 FCFA (1.09 euros)," said the manager of the sector. He welcomed "a system that allows for the passing on of international market beauties" and
"earn more than the fixed floor price".
A head of the sector had however explained at the beginning of May that the smuggling of cashew nuts Ivorian towards the neighboring countries was due to a deficit of remunerative prices to the planters. "The State does not set the price that producers need, the right price", accused Mamoudou Méïté, Secretary General of the International Federation for the cashew sector (Filcajou), a trade union organization comprising one-third of producers .
"It is a reality to say that there are numerous attempts to fraudulently export our products, and we estimate the shortfall between 20 and 50,000 tonnes per year," said Coulibaly. The cashew is "a victim of its success and has become a strategic product, just like cocoa".
The Ivory Coast cashew sector has 250,000 producers and employs 1.5 million people.
The kernel kernel is used in cooking and in cosmetics, the resin contained in its shell has various industrial uses.
Almonds are popular and consumed on all continents. The main consumer countries are India, the United States, the European Union, China, the United Arab Emirates and Australia.
Côte d'Ivoire has doubled its cashew nut production in five years, a performance achieved after reforms that have raised this agricultural country in West Africa to the world's leading producer, the official said Friday. of the sector.
"From 2013 to 2017, the cashew or cashew harvest in Côte d'Ivoire has risen from 380,000 to 711,000 tons, and production has almost doubled in five years," said Adama Coulibaly, director of the council. cotton-cashew (CCA), which manages the sector.
The country, which accounts for 22% of world production, expects a production of 750,000 tons in 2018.
According to Coulibaly, this rapid evolution is not the result of the creation of new plantations but of a government reform in 2013 that allowed "producers to make money".
"Until 2013, we gave an indicative price that was not respected field edge (field) .The cashew was sold between 25 (3ct euro) and 200 FCFA (0.30 euro) in the best of case, "said Coulibaly.
Since 2014, "the price went from 275 (0.41 euro) to 500 FCFA (0.76 euro) that day, which is very incentive for producers," he said.
The government practices a "floor price" system below which the product can not be bought.
"For the 2017 campaign, with the floor price of 500 FCFA, the producer was able to sell his crop up to 715 FCFA (1.09 euros)," said the manager of the sector. He welcomed "a system that allows for the passing on of international market beauties" and
"earn more than the fixed floor price".
A head of the sector had however explained at the beginning of May that the smuggling of cashew nuts Ivorian towards the neighboring countries was due to a deficit of remunerative prices to the planters. "The State does not set the price that producers need, the right price", accused Mamoudou Méïté, Secretary General of the International Federation for the cashew sector (Filcajou), a trade union organization comprising one-third of producers .
"It is a reality to say that there are numerous attempts to fraudulently export our products, and we estimate the shortfall between 20 and 50,000 tonnes per year," said Coulibaly. The cashew is "a victim of its success and has become a strategic product, just like cocoa".
The Ivory Coast cashew sector has 250,000 producers and employs 1.5 million people.
The kernel kernel is used in cooking and in cosmetics, the resin contained in its shell has various industrial uses.
Almonds are popular and consumed on all continents. The main consumer countries are India, the United States, the European Union, China, the United Arab Emirates and Australia.
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