Looking for locally produced cashew nut processing equipment in West
Africa
I have been asked about locally produced cashew nut processing machines for cashew processing in West Africa in the region Senegal, Gambia, & Guinea Bissau. The estimated harvest is around 3 tonnes, maybe up to 5 tonnes.
I would also like to know what can be done with the cashew nut shell liquid on a commeric al basis for a small scale producer.
2 Answers
The organisation that I was thinking of was the Africa Cashew Alliance.
African Cashew Alliance
4th Street, Kuku Hill, Osu
c/o USAID P.O. Box 1630
Accra
Ghana
Tel:
(233) 21 773 393
Tel: (233) 21 781 608
Tel: (233) 21 782 233
Fax: (233) 21 782
231
https://www.africancashewalliance.org/
https://www.africancashewalliance.com/en/news-and-info/publications/directories
This is only accessible to members
They also have publications such as “Export manual to guide cashew processors” and “Training Manual on raw nut quality”
An NGO that has worked on Cashew nut processing in the past in the West Africa region is Enterprise Works, they may be able to provide you with some useful information.
Enterprise Works / VITA, Inc.
1828 L Street, NW, Suite 1000
Washington DC
20036#
USA
Tel: +1 202 293 4600
Fax: +1 202 293 4598
Email: espositor@enterpriseworks.org
Web: https://www.enterpriseworks.org
Enterprise Works
Worldwide (EWW). EWW was formally Appropriate Technology International ATI and were started as
part of the US Government's response to Schumacher. They are an NGO and have recently made a
strategic shift towards business development services as the leading edge of their work. They
have worked on cashew processing in West Africa.
Another organisation that I have the address of is SAFPP which looks like they are based in South Africa but have worked in Guinea.
SAFPP
Strengthening African Food Processing Project
CSIR Bio/Chemtek -
TFD Building 22
P.
O. Box 395 Pretoria
South Africa 0001
Tel: +27 12 841 3097
Fax: +27 12 841 3726
E-mail
dharcourt@csir.co.za
Website: https://www.safpp.co.za/
Cashew project in Guinea
And some additional information from the Practical Action West Africa office:-
Other organisations with relevant experience
- RONGEAD https://www.rongead.org
which for example has written this very comprehensive guide in French to transformation of
cashew https://www.rongead.org/IMG/pdf/diagnostic_transfo_7web.pdf
-
SNV Guinea Bissau https://www.snvworld.org - CEAS Burkina
Faso https://www.ceasburkina.org/topic1/index.html
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