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Nigeria should expect increase in cashew output due to favorable weather

Cashew Nut Kernel
Nigeria
Published Jan 20, 2023

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Nigeria’s cashew output this season is expected to rise due to favourable weather conditions, Daily Independent has gathered. Tola Faseru, President, African Cashew Alliance (ACA), in a telephone interview with Daily Independent said that the current weather condition is favourable and if sustained there will be a good harvest.

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LAGOS – “We expect that if the weather that we have remain good and continues the way it is and the harmattan is not over extended and the rain also did not come too early, we should have an average production, we should have something reasonable, and so far so good we should be able to maintain our usual or slightly more volume. He said that the world should expect nothing less than 280,000 metric tonnes from Nigeria this year. “The world should be expecting about 280,000 metric tonnes from Nigeria this year. From the little harvest that has taken place, it is quite good,” he said. Faseru noted that international demands last year were affected by the Russian Ukraine war which affected many other consumption products particularly in Europe and America.” Ojo Ajanaku, National President, National Cashew Association of Nigeria (NCAN) said that the weather condition has been very favourable with moderate harmattan. He said the harmattan will definitely help but that the only ...
Source: Independent
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