Mussa Assane Chionda is a cashew producer from Namatil village, Mueda disctict, in Cabo Delgado Province. Last season, he and his neighbors produced and aggregated quantity of 120 tons of cashew with MozaCajú assistance. When it was time to sell, he sent an SMS to the CommCare platform. …
Abudo Kunoa and Calisto Ingero are cashew producers in Mucojo, a village in the District of Macomia. Both have complained that cashew crops normally succumb to the Oidium disease, a fungus that causes the leaves to crinkle and become minimally functional. It attacks flowers and young fruits making them look…
At the end of a MozaCajú training that closed with a Cost Benefit Analysis (using a real example), Gaspar Carvalho very humbly shared his experience and achievements obtained from his cashew farm. He already knew that his current yield of 3.2 kg / plant was quite low compared to other…
This time we have a story about Agostinho Abudo who lives in Nacutuco, some 5 km from Mucojo Sede. This year he has harvested 10 bags or 900 kg of cashew nuts and has sold them all for a price of 30Mts/kg, and he is still harvesting from his farm.
MozaCajú was featured in the United States government Feed the Future monthly newsletter for January 2016: “Given the global demand for cashews, Feed the Future, through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has invested $18 million in modernizing the Mozambican cashew sector in an effort to reconnect…
In September 2015, TechnoServe Mozambique published an analysis of the Mozambican Cashew Industry, which described the history, current key players in the private and public sector, and a brief evaluation of the policies that regulate the industry. The analysis is detailed in a report that focuses on mapping out the…
The chairman of the Cashew Industry Association (Aicaju), Mohammed Yunus Abdul Gaffar has said the country’s cashew processing companies will process 41,500 tons of nuts by the end of the year, a 66 percent increase compared to the 25,000 tons processed in 2014, APA can report on Friday. Addressing the…
Cashew processing company, Condor Nuts, based in Nampula, Mozambique, has just received an international certificate allowing it to export cashew nuts to the USA, Europe and Africa, according to Mozambican daily newspaper Notícias. The certification was provided by the African Cashew Alliance (ACA), an organization that coordinates the cashew industry’s…
“I have two wives,” he said—in English, surprisingly—then burst into laughter. That was the only English I exchanged with Teotonio Pereira from Uala. Continuing in Portuguese, I clarified that Teotonio does not actually have two wives, but he so frequently travels the several hours journey between his farms that it…
TechnoServe recently participated in a live chat hosted by the Guardian through Olam’s Know Your Nuts series. Experts in the nut industry took questions on the biggest challenges facing the supply chain – here is what they said.
