June 21, 2019
View of a stock of products at a farmer's house in Niakara
Niakara, June 21 (AIP) - Taking stock at the mid-point of the 2019 cashew season, the regional delegate (DR) of the Hambol's Cotton and Cashew Council noted a decline in regional production, estimating from February 15 to date, at a little over 12 thousand tons, walnut harvests sold by the producers of Niakara against 20 thousand tons over the same period at the end of 2018, a deficit of nearly 7 thousand tons.
"From February 15, the date of the 2019 cashew nut marketing year, to date, only 12,246,682 tonnes of nuts have been sold by Niakara producers. Now, we should be at least 20,000 tonnes, when we go back to previous campaigns, "said regional delegate Atchoumou Koné.
He spoke on Tuesday at the Niakara prefecture during the mid-term review meeting of the 2019 campaign of the local committee of the departmental watch, organ chaired by the prefect of the district, Matenin Ouattara.
For the regional manager, the monitoring, control and regulation structure of the cashew nut campaign in Côte d'Ivoire, which has not concealed the existence of crop stocks from local producers, the figures are Below expectations in Niakara.
Referring to the adverse effects of global warming on the yield of cashew trees, he noted that this decline was also noticeable in the departments of Katiola and Dabakala. Anything that could "make Hambol lose its rank of 2nd region producing cashew nuts in Côte d'Ivoire after Béré".
Cashew growers in Niakara, questioned by the AIP on Thursday about the reasons for the fall in local production, have deplored, in addition to the vagaries of the weather, the growing disinterest in the campaigns over the maintenance of orchards .
"In the department of Niakara, not only have acres of cashew trees been ravaged by fire for lack of monitoring and maintenance of the plantations but also fruits have been abandoned to livestock for lack of motivation. This is due to the repeated failure of harvesting, "said Simon Koné Kpantouma (56), a cashew producer in Niakara.
(AIP)
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