Archive for April, 2024

CAC announces hike in cashew prices

The Cashew nut Association of Cambodia (CAC) announced an increase in the price of wet cashew nuts to 5,000 riels per kilogram, a new record in a 15-year period. The hike came amid exports exceeding 400,000 tonnes in three months at a value of over $500 million. At the beginning of 2023, wet cashew nuts

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Cambodia earns $543 million from exports of raw cashew nuts in first three months

Cambodia exported $543 million worth of raw cashew nuts in the first quarter of this year, a year-on-year increase of 13 percent, according to a report from the Cashew Nut Association of Cambodia. The source said the Kingdom exported 424,000 tonnes of its total production of 474,000 tonnes to Vietnam. The association’s president, Uon Silot,

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Cashew nut processing competition pioneered to bolster local industry

Under a fresh initiative supported by the Department of Agro-Industry, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), cashew farmers and processors nationwide will compete to win the top spot for local cashew nut production quality and capacity. The competition seeks to improve and promote local agro-industry entrepreneurs and their final products,

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Cashew Processors Compete for the National Award

PHNOM PENH – Cashew nut enterprises will compete to find the best local processed products. The top three enterprises will be chosen by a committee from the Department of Ago-Industry of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, which is organising the competition in collaboration with development partners. The one-month competition aims to find the

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