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Kilifi Governor Amason Kingi (left) and Foreign Affairs Chief Administrative Secretary Ababu Namwamba sample a cashew nut seedling at the Ten Senses nursery at Kakanjuni area in Kilifi North Sub County, in Kilifi County as a delegation from the European Union looks on Tuesday, 12, June, 2018. [Nehemiah Okwembah, Standard]
Cashew nut farmers at the Coast should expect better prices in the next harvest season in January and February when the new Sh240 million European Union-funded factory starts to process their produce.
Annually, the new factory will have a capacity to process 5,000 metric tonnes of cashew nuts, a third of the country's current total production.
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