Casual workers sampling quality cashew nuts at Millennium Management Limited in Kilifi county. Brokers have been blamed for diminishing production of cashew nuts at the coast. PHOTO|LBAN WALONGA. NATION
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Processors say farmers have failed to commercialise the crop
By Nation Correspondent
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Diminishing production of cashew nuts at the coast has been blamed for lack of a link between farmers and the processors.
Nut Processors Association of Kenya chief executive officer Charles Muigai yesterday said although over 500 collection centres have been created in the past three years, farmers are still selling nuts to middlemen.
Processors bought nuts at Sh45 a kilo last season, while middlemen paid farmers who did not take the nuts to collection centres Sh20, he said.
Processors say farmers have failed to commercialise the crop.
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