The rise and fall of cashew farming in Coast

Mr Bernard Nzaro admires a section of Cashew Nuts fruits in its early stage at  his farm in Tezo,  Kilifi

Shida Mwandoro, a resident of Kaembeni in Ganze sub-County recalls with nostalgia how three decades ago, cashew nut farming was the main economic activity in Kilifi County. The sector was doing so well, it transformed the lives of locals. Then somewhere along the way, things began to go south.

Politics and mismanagement crept in and the once booming Kenya Cashew nut Limited became a shadow of its former self.