Mozambique: Government promotes the cashew export development strategy
by Market Insider
Thursday, 18 Dec. 2014
In
the meeting of cashew sector stakeholders of 11 and 12 December 2014, the
Guinea-Bissau Minister of Commerce stated Government’s plan to increase cashew
exports from 150,000 to 200,000 tons per year.
Participants
to the meeting, including farmers, producers, traders, exporters, as well as
representatives of banks, police and the government, analysed new export
strategy measures with a view to improve export conditions, increase export
incentives and augment the market transparency.
According
to the Director of the National Cashew Institute –INCAJU and to information
published by the African Cashew Association, the country produced 96,000 tons
of raw cashews in the 2009/10 season, 113,000 tons in 2010/11, the lowest crop
in 10 years amounting to 64,000 tons in 2011/12, about 80,000 tons in 2012/13,
and 140,000 tons in 2013/14. The Government estimates that cashews are the main
source of income for more than 80 % of the rural population.
Only
some
30,000
tons/year of cashew are currently processed. The remaining of the crop is
partly exported, and partly smuggled to neighbouring countries, mainly Senegal
(smuggled cashews can at times reach a half of the crop).
Sources :
http://jornaldeangola.sapo.ao/economia/sector_do_caju_deve_aumentar_as_exportacoes,
http://af.reuters.com/article/guineaBissauNews/idAFL6N0PV0T820140722
,
http://www.mozacaju.com/about
,
http://www.freshplaza.com/article/130862/Mozambique-to-sell-80,000-tons-of-cashews-this-year