Brazil: Cashew harvest in Ceará allows farmers to increase income with sweets and juices

The Northeast is in the cashew harvest season. In Ceará, farmers use the fruit to make various products and increase income. Watch all Globo Rural videos The state is the largest producer of the fruit in the country. It has an area of 380 thousand hectares of the plant. The giant type is the most common, but it has a smaller variety. The precocious dwarf type, in turn, has been gaining more space with government incentives and already occupies 30% of the planted area in Ceará and is up to three times more productive. To take advantage of this abundance, farmers have also made other foods with cashew nuts. A property in the state uses 80% of its harvest to prepare cajuína, which represents a large ...