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Original Post Date: 2010-09-15 Time: 13:00:04 Posted By: News Poster
Maputo – The cashew processing industry in Africa has the potential to produce over 300 million US dollars in added value and create over 200,000 new jobs in rural areas, according to Carlos Costa, the President of the African Cashew Alliance (ACA).
Costa was speaking in Maputo on Tuesday, at the opening of the 5th annual conference of ACA, which claims to have brought over 250 cashew stakeholders from around the globe to Mozambique. The conference is being held under the theme “Empower the Industry!”
Africa, said Costa, is the continent with the greatest potential for growth in the cashew industry, and has long traditions of cashew production and processing. Despite the rise of Asian cashew producers, Africa is still responsible for more than a third of total world production.
Costa argued that a crucial factor in taking advantage of the cashew potential would be to establish “relations of partnership between ourselves, so that we can achieve mutual gains”.
Africa, he declared, was tired of exporting raw cashew nuts in bulk, which were then processed somewhere else. The greatest gains thus accrued to the processing and not to the exporting countries
“This is an aberration”, said Costa, “at a time when the international community calls increasingly for ethical practices and ‘fair trade’ in business”.
Africa grows 40 per cent of the world’s cashew nuts, but only 10 per cent of what is grown on the continent is processed locally. Costa called for partnerships along the lines of “global development alliances” where the major companies with know-how and market access would enter into partnership with African companies “in order to intervene jointly in the cashew value chain, by producing, processing and selling cashews on the basis of a fairer division of the profits”.
Success would depend on African producers themselves, Costa insisted. “We must organise ourselves at home, setting up strong and cohesive associations”, he said, “which allow us to make our voices heard in all quarters, whether with our governments or even with potential international partners”.
The director of the Mozambican government’s National Cashew Institute (INCAJU), Filomena Maiopué, said that, although Mozambique has the best processing industry on the continent, it is facing serious financial constraints.
“The country has the capacity to process 30,000 tonnes, although the industry is not operating at full capacity”, she said. Funding of between 20 and 50 million US dollars was needed to relaunch the industry nationally.
Maiopue pledged that Mozambique will transmit to other producers its wide ranging experience in research and in producing improved cashew trees.
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Original date published: 14 September 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201009150842.html?viewall=1