About Cashew Bondoukou

We are a wholesale company specializing in raw cashew nuts in shell, sourced directly from Bondoukou, Ivory Coast, ensuring quality and authenticity in every batch.

In the town of Bondoukou, located in the Zanzan district in the northeast of Côte d'Ivoire , not far from the country's border with Ghana ,, traditional huts with straw roofs have given way to cement houses.

While Africa (led by Côte d'Ivoire) produces ninety percent of the world's raw cashews at the moment, less than fifteen percent is processed on the continent. In Côte d'Ivoire, this figure is only six percent. The majority of the cashew nuts produced in Côte d'Ivoire are exported to Asia, where processing plants are operating at full capacity. Everything from roasting, salting, and incorporating the nuts into snacks destined for the European and American markets is carried out. The relocation of cashew processing activities to countries in the African continent would serve in creating a vital, new source of income for the continent.

Cashew trees were originally introduced to the Bondoukou region for the purposes of reforestation. Local people soon realized that growing cashews was much less demanding than growing cocoa, as the farm plots required little maintenance and that the cashew nuts could be sold at a more attractive price than cocoa or cotton, the prices of which were falling.

In two decades, cashew has become the new star crop of Côte d'Ivoire, and its success continues. Cashew production has now increased ten times, having notched up just under nine hundred thousand tonnes in the 2020 season, according to the latest figures from the Cotton and Cashew Council. The sector now supports more than 410,000 families in Côte d'Ivoire, today the world's second-largest producer, right behind India and just ahead of Vietnam. The country is also on track to become the third-largest cashew processor in the world, with one of the highest production. The reason for Côte d'Ivoire's rise as a global cashew production powerhouse is partly due to the ecological transition to adapt to climate change and the depletion of forests.

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