Nigeria is set to supply 130,000 tonnes of roasted cashew nuts valued at $7 billion to Walmart Super Market chain in the United States of America, USA, the Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbe, has said.


The minister diclosed this on Wednesday while briefing State House correspondents after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council at the State House Presidential Villa Abuja.

Mr. Ogbe said, “But the other good news is cashew nuts. These things look small, but we are in conversations with Walmart, the biggest supermarket chain in the U.S., they came here and asked us to roast cashew nuts for them.

“Their demand is a 130,000 tonnes of cashew nuts per annum, the total value is $7 billion,” he said.

Mr. Ogbe said what Nigeria currently does is ship the nuts to Vietnam, who in turn roast and sell to the U.S.

“This year we are going to create six cashew processing factories in Nigeria, one each to be cited in Enugu, Imo, Benue, Kogi, Kwara and Oyo states. These are the cashew belt for now,” he said.

The minister said these options are coming now because Nigeria is beginning to focus on non-oil export.

“Once you can diversify your economy, if something goes wrong in one sector you can hang on to the other,” he said.

Mr. Ogbe had earlier said Nigeria will formally flag off the export of yam to the UK on Thursday.

He said the government is also looking to use yam for industrial starch for the textile industry and for export to China.

He added that India is also asking Nigeria for the supply of beans. He said the beans market in India alone is about $100 billion.

“When the Indian Vice President came here, he asked me to visit so we could talk, so the market in Agric is huge, the prospects are large; it’s about improving on our strategies at home and getting all our states to get involved, not all of them are doing what they ought to be doing now,” the minister said.

SOURCE: https://brandspurng.com/nigeria-to-supply-walmart-with-6-billion-worth-of-cashew-nuts/

I agreed with the supplies of the Cashew nuts to foreign countries, but not our Yam...Nigerians needs more yam to chop o.

I agreed with the supplies of the Cashew nuts to foreign countries, but not our Yam...Nigerians needs more yam to chop o.

If we had this much cashew nuts, y is it not cheap as groundnuts locally.

hodusglobal:
I agreed with the supplies of the Cashew nuts to foreign countries, but not our Yam...Nigerians needs more yam to chop o.

my frd get a land & farm yams even 100 pieces will do yo stomach a lot of good,u dnt want yam farmers to earn $$ b/c of yo stomachsake?

hodusglobal:
I agreed with the supplies of the Cashew nuts to foreign countries, but not our Yam...Nigerians needs more yam to chop o.

Yam farmers are not allergic to foreign currencies!

Yams going international, we don dey divert from the OP topic.

Still boils down to proper follow up

ok

ok

I love Cashews