Mozambique: Small processors in Inhambane have difficulty certifying cashew nuts

In the last four years, Inhambane province has sold around 70,000 tons of cashew nuts, mostly on the domestic market. But small cashew growers say they are having difficulty certifying the nuts produced in that province. Inhambane is the third largest producer of cashew nuts in the country, but despite this, it does not have a processing industry of its own. There are however many small processors with capacity of less than a thousand tons per year. For these, the big problem is certifying the cashew nuts produced in Inhambane. The selling price of cashew nuts abroad is another problem faced by processors, who often prefer to sell on the local market. The districts that produce cashew nuts say there should be incentives to attract investment for the industrial processing of the oil. The governor of Inhambane has revealed that, in the last five years, three million cashew tree seedlings were planted there, and ...