xWhile commending cashew farmers in Nigeria for their role in improving the country’s cashew nuts quality this year, he said the quality of cashew nuts in Nigeria and Africa generally has seen a great improvement this year, attributing it to the good work by farmers. You find out that farmers dried nuts to up to about seven per cent this year, improving on quality,” he said. He believed if farmers maintained this good work, the fortunes of various stakeholders of the cashew industry in Nigeria, especially farmers, would increase. On cashew processing, Faseru expressed delight in the progress the subsector is making in the country. According to him, there is increasingly a better understanding of the cashew industry now, which is changing the risk perception of people about the industry.

Source: The Guardian July 18, 2021 03:45 UTC