This document provides an overview of cashews, including its types and varieties, production statistics, major exporters and importers, products manufactured from cashews, leading brands and companies, its market value and share, and future challenges for the industry. It discusses how cashews are native to tropical America but are now widely grown in countries like Vietnam, Nigeria, India, Cote d'Ivoire and Benin. The top exporters are Vietnam and India, which account for about 40% and 33% of the global market share, respectively.

2. cashew
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3. contents
 Introduction
 Types/ varieties
 Production statistics
 Data on import/ export
 Different products manufactured
 Brands/companies
 Market value, market share
 Future challenges

4. Introduction
 Cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) belongs to family Anacardiaceae is
considered to be native of tropical America (South-East Brazil) .
 Cashew trees can grow from sea level to an altitude of 1000 m
 The tree produces a soft, shiny, and juicy fruit known as cashew apple which
bears a single‐seeded nut in its bottom covered with a hard gray shell.

7.  Nut shell
 Cashew nut is a high value edible nut. It yields
two “Oils” one of these found, between the seed
coat (or pericarp) and the nuts, is called the
Cashew Nut Shell Liquid (CNSL).
 It is not a triglyceride and contains a high
proportion of phenolic compound. It is used in
industry as a raw material for brake lining
compounds, as a water proofing agent, a
preservative and in the manufacturing of paints
and plastics.

8. processing

9. composition

12. Types and varieties
 Cashew nuts types or cashew Kernels varieties are graded into white/scorched
wholes,pieces,splits,butts etc.. depending on the shape,size & colour of the kernel.
 The cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale) is a short, stocky, low-spreading,
evergreen tropical tree.
 Different kinds of cashew nuts types
 W – 180, is the ‘ King of Cashew ‘ – They are larger in size and very expensive.
 W – 210, are popularly known as ‘ Jumbo ‘ nuts.
 W – 240, it is an attractive grade which is reasonably priced.
 W – 320, are the most popular among cashew kernels and highest in terms of
availability, worldwide.
 W – 450, are the smallest and cheapest white whole kernels and hence the favorite
among low priced whole grades.

13. Cont.…

14. Production statistics

17. Exports
 Vietnam remains world’s No 1 exporter of cashews
 Specifically, Vietnam exported 260,000 tons of cashew nuts, up 1.1 percent,
according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on
Thursday.

19. PRODUCTS
 Cashew apple
 A number of processes have now been developed for converting the cashew apple
into various products such as juice, jam, syrup, chutney and beverage
 Cashew nut oil
 Cashew butter
 Cashew milk
 Cashew testa
 Cashew tree bark

20. Delicious Cashew Co. Food to live pvt ltd Signaturefoods ltd. Darshan Design pro pvt ltd.

21. OEM Beverages ltd. Britvic groups Allin Exporters ltd. WhiteWave Foods ltd.
Meridians foods Ltd. Biona foods Ltd. Crede oils Pvt Ltd. Turtle Moutain Ltd.

22. Market share
 Major cashew nut producing countries are Vietnam, Nigeria, India, Côte d'Ivoire
and Benin.
 India and Vietnam are the two major producers and exporters of cashew,
accounting for 40% and 33% market shares, respectively.
 Brazil is another major exporter that supplies to the United States. The largest
cashew importers in terms of value are Vietnam, India, and the US. These
countries together account for 85% of the total cashew import share, which
signifies a concentrated nature of import trends.
 Other importers of cashew kernel are European Union, China, United Arab
Emirates, Japan and Saudi Arabia.

23. Future challenges
 Increasing quantity and quality of cashew kernel and cashew by-product
processing.
 Creating stable business relationships between farmer groups, processors, buyers
and retailer.
 Organizing key stakeholders of the sector at national and regional levels around
shared goals and advocate policies that favor cashew production and processing.

24. Bibliography
 The Complete Book on Cashew (Cultivation, Processing & By-Products) by
H.Panda
 Handbook of Fruit Science and Technology: Production, Composition, Storage
and processing by D.K.Salunkhe
 Cashew hand book 2014
 Akinhanmi, T. F., V. N. Atasie, and P. O. Akintokun. "Chemical composition and
physicochemical properties of cashew nut (Anacardium occidentale) oil and cashew nut
shell liquid." J Agric Food Environ Sci 2.1 (2008): 1-10.
 https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/global-cashew-market
 http://www.cashewindia.org/
 https://www.ibef.org/exports/cashew-industry-india.aspx