Vietnam's cashew yield decreases sharply

The cashew harvest this year, farmers face more and more difficulties because the productivity and selling price are not as expected. This is also the situation happening for many years for cashew, one of the main agricultural products of the province. In previous years, in early February, cashew orchards in the province started to harvest, to March the cashew will be ripe. However, up to this point, in cashew orchards, only a few squash trees have ripe fruit, and even many cashew orchards show cotton. As reflected by cashew farmers, due to the adverse effects of weather, cashew yield this year plummeted. The first wave of flowers was met with rain and frost, causing many orchards to not bear fruit, leading to the harvest this year a month later than every year, the yield also decreased by 30-50% compared to last year. Mrs. Truong Thi Hoa (Hamlet 8, Hoa Binh Commune, Xuyen Moc District) has 6,000 square meters of cashew which are beginning to harvest, said at this time last year, ...