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A young bricklayer in Kwara State, simply identified as Alaba, was getting frustrated in 2015 because his craft was not fetching him enough money to take proper care of himself and his family. He was contemplating on what to do when an idea struck him. It was in March 2015, and the idea was planting cashew trees. It flashed as he saw some cashew plantation owners smiling to the bank. Olam Edible Nuts, a cashew processing company located at Ogbondoroko, a suburb of Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, off Afon road, through its various aggregators, was buying a kilogramme at the rate of N600. Alaba then made a decision to start cashew cultivation, left his wife and kids in the suburb and moved to his home town, a border village between Kwara and Kogi states, where the community land is available for members of the village to farm.His cashew trees, on three acres of land, are now fruiting. He said he was fascinated into this partly because the plantation maintenance is much more...
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Cashew farmers expect early harvest, increase in production

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The National Cashew Association of Nigeria (NCAN) has projected a 10 per cent increase in cashew nut production for 2018. It said this would bring the total value of nuts to 185 tons, up from its 2017 level of 175 tons. The national publicity secretary of the association, Mr Sotonye Anga, made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. Anga said the expectations were because thousands of new cashew trees at their 17th week were already flowering in preparation to fruit. According to him, there is also a prospective early harvest in 2018 starting from January. “It is a good thing to see reports from members across the cashew producing states that even new cashew plantations of 16 to 17 months are already flowering. “This goes to show that there will be enormous economical gains for the nation in terms of revenue. “This year, there was a record high sale of raw cashew nuts because a metric ton of the commodity was sold for N700,000; that has never ...
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