By OSSENE OUATTARA, Yamoussoukro.
After their meeting on Saturday, April 7 during which they expressed their will to take their “destiny in hand” in the face of the “problems” of their sector, the members of the National Federation of Cashew Producers of Ivory Coast ( FENAPACI) have given the cover this Saturday, April 21st.
This time, they were joined in the sumptuous cinema hall of the Yamoussoukro Hotel President by buyers, exporters and industrialists (processors).
These four colleges have affirmed their union through the National Association of actors of the cashew sector. Who is a permanent framework for consultation and reflection on the challenges facing the cashew nut sector.
Among others, purchase prices to producers, problems related to the quality of nuts, their local processing, the difficulties faced by exporters, the leakage of products to neighboring countries. Equations that only the “real actors of the sector can find solutions”, affirmed each manager of the four families. Believing together the “real links” in the cashew value chain.
A General Assembly will adopt the statutes and rules of procedure of the incipient association. In the meantime, the drafts of both texts were presented to the participants of the meeting. They came from nineteen regions where cashews are produced in Côte d’Ivoire.
After two successive marketing campaigns without its discordant, the sluggishness of that of 2018 brings back past problems.
OSSENE OUATTARA
