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CÔTE D'IVOIRE

Côte d’Ivoire, popularly known as Ivory Coast, is located on the south coast of West Africa. It is the largest producer of raw cashew in the world.

From tiny harvests two decades ago, Côte d’Ivoire country holds the cashew crown, supplanting India as the biggest producer of the nut. Cashews are third-ranking export after cacao and refined petroleum products, and a crucial source of cash for smallholders and processors in the poorer north of the country.

Direct Procurement Programme in Côte d’Ivoire

Direct Procurement Programme is an initiative where our expert team of buyers supervises all procurement and quality-related activities at the origin. We began our Direct Procurement Programme in 2014 by setting up a purchase point in Bondukou, located in the north-eastern region and one of the main cashew producing area in the entire Côte d’Ivoire. Bondukou produces the highest quality raw cashew nut in the entire country. Shipment activities are coordinated and carried out from Abidjan, the commercial capital and the main port city.

“Alphonsa is one of the largest direct procurers (on actual user basis) of Ivorian raw cashew at the farm-gate level.”

Cashew growing regions in Côte d’Ivoire

In Ivory Coast, cashew production as such started in 1959 and are are grown in northern, north-western and north-eastern part of the country employing about 450,000 growers.