Apart from poor husbandry, the drop in cashew nut production has also been occasioned by an increasing number of aging trees. Farmers are not planting enough new trees and they have not embraced ...
Kenya has about 2.4 million old cashew nut trees, of which 20 percent are no longer productive. Yet, world market demand is steadily increasing due to rising awareness of the importance of nuts in ...
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has sacked both the agriculture and trade ministers, and threatened to deploy the military over a cashew nut crisis. Traders have been given a Monday deadline to ...