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International Nut and Dried Fruit Council Chairman Ashok Krishen said present connected Friday, November 14, that Gen-Z should beryllium the people consumers for promoting depletion of histrion nuts successful India.
Speaking astatine the inaugural league of the three-day Kaju Centennial Summit-2025, organised by the Karnataka Cashew Manufacturers Association (KCMA), helium said, “Gen-Z are much into wellness and wellness. Those who tin devour nuts are the close consumers for the promotion of nuts.”
Mr. Krishen said that India has a Gen-Z colonisation of astir 400 million. “If each of them devour 30 grams of nuts regular for 250 days, fractional (three cardinal tonnes) of the world’s histrion seed accumulation (which is six cardinal tonnes) is consumed lone successful India.”
He said that depletion of nuts and dried fruits are expanding owed to wellness consciousness and their usage arsenic ingredients successful preparing snacks. Mr. Krishen said they are bully for wellness and nutritious.
“However, arsenic an industry, we bash not person a wellness assertion and we bash not person dietary guidelines,” helium said, adding, “We privation to embark connected getting a wellness claim, which involves randomised objective trials. We person besides chosen India arsenic 1 state to participate. So, hopefully successful the adjacent 5 years, we volition get a wellness assertion which we tin enactment connected our user battalion saying that nuts are healthy.”
Threat to cashew processors
The president said that cashew processors successful India who mostly beryllium connected processing imported cashew nuts volition person to look a menace arsenic immoderate African countries wherever cashew nuts are grown person begun processing nuts connected their ain with the inducement of their respective governments. “Cashew processing is moving backmost to the origins. We spot a phenomenal maturation complaint successful processing (in those countries).”
Hence, Mr. Krishen suggested to cashew manufactures of Karnataka and different parts of India to acceptable up processing units successful those countries.
