Monday, March 23, 2009

I'm almost out of battery so I better make this quick. Weve spent the whole day visiting cashew factories and talking to cashew processors both large and small scale. It is definitely the lifeblood of this area. Whether we as an organization have a role to play here in helping production, or diversifying production or something else is still hard to say, but we've had alot of interesting discussions and learned a tonne. For example, cashew oil can be used as brake fluid and wood preservative, and cashew husks can be extracted for use in makeup.  The plant we visited this morning is the first in Africa, and the largest in the world. Unfortunately I was not able to take a picture of the 1200 women working on shelling the raw cashews. It was quite a sight.


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