USDA, others promote value addition in driving Nigeria's cashew export to $4bn

From left: Akinyinka Akinyemi, general manager, Tree Crop Debt Unit Secretariat Ibadan; Constance Konan, regional cashew project coordinator, Development Gateway; Ohinoyi Christopher Adava, head cashew desk, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development; Jean Francois Guay, chief of party at Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA); Roland Oroh, managing director, Commodity Development Initiative(CDI) and chairman, National Cashew Value Chain Working Committee; Shakti Pal, regional policy expert, Cashew Value Chain, Pro cashew; director, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria(CRIN), Ibadan and assistant director, head agric statistics division, National Bureau of Statistics at the maiden policy dialogue with cashew stakeholders held in Lagos recently.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s West Africa PRO-Cashew and African Cashew Alliance (ACA) are working on increasing Nigeria’s cashew production to 500,000 metric tons yearly to pull at least $4billion export revenue from the commodity. Jean Francois Guay, chief of party, C

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Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi

Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi is a journalist with over five years’ reporting experience. She writes on industry, agriculture, commodities, climate change, and environmental issues. She is fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Bloomberg Media Initiative for Africa.