Are you looking for a cash crop with a
great potential to create jobs for you and others, generate considerable export
opportunities, is low in farming risk and is able to bring a bigger income for
farmers in rural areas? Then look no further than Cashew!
Cashew is not everyone’s favorite fruit but the cashew apple
and the cashew nut are some of the farmer’s biggest moneymakers in Nigeria and
in Africa at large.
The cashew apple has a succulent flesh
that is sweet to taste. Its nut can be consumed as snacks. Cashew oil, obtain
from cold-pressing the cashew, is used for cooking. The bark of the cashew
tree is also medicinal.
Cashew is so widely known, popularly eaten
and a ready resource for various other products that it is a given that farmers
growing the crop will continue to generate revenue from it.
