#Benin / Cashew nut sector: Update on the 2021-2022 campaign

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215,809 tons of raw cashew nuts were produced during the 2021-2022 campaign and 159,898 tons of this production were exported.

According to the report of the Council of Ministers of this Wednesday, March 15, 2023 which looked into the subject and gave these first figures, “out of an installed processing capacity of 60,800 tonnes outside the Glo-Djigbé Special Economic Zone, ten factories out of the fourteen operated and processed 17,700 tonnes and the quantity of white almonds intended for export is 1,187 tonnes. “.

What regarding the 2022-2023 commercial campaign?

As for the 2022-2023 marketing campaign, the opening of which was set for March 16, 2023 in Natitingou and closing for October 31 of the same year, local processors expressed a need for 119,400 tonnes of raw nuts and also expressed the wish to have an exclusive period at the start of the campaign to stock up on this material.

The Council of Ministers of this Wednesday, March 15, 2023 also informed the various players in the cashew nut sector that the export of said nuts by land is prohibited.

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J-Marc Aurel AGOSSOU

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