The world's second largest producer of cashew nuts wants to strengthen its production capacity. Côte d'Ivoire wants to build three new cashew nut processing plants.

According to official figures, gross cashew production reached one million tonnes for the first time in 2020, compared to 850,000 in 2019. Only 10% of this production was processed on site. Côte d'Ivoire has therefore decided to triple its raw nut processing capacity. The country, which has nearly 250,000 producers grouped together in around twenty cooperatives, will launch the construction of three packaging factories in 2022, with the help of the World Bank.