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High quality of nuts boosts farmers’ pay
Nut Processors Association of Kenya chairman John Muhara (left), African Cashew Association president Idrissa Kilangi from Tanzania and Cashew Industry Association president Carlos Coasta from Mozambique sign a trade agreement at an annual conference in Nairobi on July 31, 2012. Photo/Dennis Okeyo
Cashew nut farmers are set for higher returns this year helped by better quality and the ban on export of raw nuts.
In 2011, processors offered farmers as much as Sh58 per kilogramme of raw cashew nuts as the sector, which exports up to 95 per cent of the total produce, reaped from the weakening of the Kenyan shilling.
