FROM TREE TO TABLE: CASHEWS ARE A KERNEL OF HOPE FOR BURKINA FASO

Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré (@capitaineib226 on X) recently laid the first stone to open a cashew-apple processing factory in the southwestern department of Péni as part of the government’s plan to expand local cashew production.

He suggested establishing more such factories in the southern municipalities of Orodara, Banfora and Gaoua. He then visited the newly resurrected SN ANATRANS cashew-nut factory. The largely women-operated factory had gone under after struggling financially for many years, but the government re-opened it on 23 May 2025.

These developments follow the government's suspension of raw, unrefined cashew exports in April, allowing it to begin refining cashew food products locally.

Video credits: @BF1 (X), @Faso7_BF (X)