Nigeria's cashew sector challenges remain despite new facilities

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The facilities are to serve as the point for stacking, weighing, and evacuation of cashew nuts from Niger, Edo, Benue, Kwara, and Kogi States for export.

He explained that the varieties that have been planted in Nigeria over the years are wild, not improved varieties and so the yield is reduced and some of these trees are aging.

Garba Kontagora, a cashew farmer, and national coordinator of Cashew Farmers North said although cashew is an income generator for the country, and an international business, it lacks government support which is a major problem. Ajani Ezekiel, a cashew farmer in Oyo State said, “Middlemen buy cashew nuts at prices they’re willing to buy, and as farmers, we do not have a choice but to sell. Lack of capital to purchase fertilisers and no empowerment from the government .”

“We have been talking to institutional players in the Agro sector so that they can establish industrial or commercial plantations because as it is over ninety per cent of cashew farmers are smallholders.”

 

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AmokeLouis GovUgwuanyiNews Please let Gburus do something about the Cashew plantation in Enugu. Last I heard, the Vietnamese were buying it and taking it to their country.

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