Sh240 factory gives hope for cashew nut farmers at Coast

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.