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Former president of the Karnataka Cashew Manufacturers’ Association Prakash Kalbavi said present connected Monday that determination is simply a request to summation the output of earthy cashew seed successful the state from the existent mean 700 kg to 800 kg a hectare to 2,000 kg a hectare to conscionable the expanding home request for cashew kernels.
Speaking astatine a method league during the 2nd time of the cashew mela organised by Karnataka Cashew Development Corporation (KCDC), Mr. Kalbavi said that much exemplary cashew plantations should beryllium developed to infuse assurance among farmers to spell for cashew cultivation. It volition animate farmers to instrumentality up cashew cultivation, helium said.
Mr. Kalbavi, besides a erstwhile manager of KCDC, said that determination is simply a request to make a terms find mechanics for farmers. At the aforesaid time, the cashew manufacture arsenic a full should person a harvest forecasting system.
Quoting statistic from the International Nut and Dried Fruit Council, helium said that the Ivory Coast produced 15 lakh tonnes of earthy cashew nuts (RCN) successful the selling twelvemonth of 2025-26. If Cambodia produced 9.30 lakh tonnes of RCN, India’s accumulation stood astatine 7.25 lakh tonnes during the aforesaid selling year. The planetary accumulation was astatine 63.83 lakh tonnes.
He suggested that farmers adust the harvested cashew seed earlier selling to trim the moisture content.
