{"id":196100,"date":"2025-04-15T17:42:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cashew-boom-draws-global-agro-industry-giants-to-ivory-coast\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:42:49","slug":"cote-divoire-cashew-boom-draws-global-agro-industry-giants-to-ivory-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cashew-boom-draws-global-agro-industry-giants-to-ivory-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Cashew Boom Draws Global Agro-Industry Giants to Ivory Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Ivory Coast, the world&#8217;s top producer of raw cashew nuts, is attracting major international agribusiness investors as it shifts from raw exports to local processing<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Output is forecast to reach 1.2 million tons in 2025&#8211;up from 565,000 tons in 2014&#8211;yet only 30% of nuts were processed domestically<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To accelerate industrialization, the Cotton and Cashew Council (CCA) has offered tax incentives and early purchasing access to processors<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">Ivory Coast, the world&#8217;s top producer of raw cashew nuts,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504150120.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR Ivory Coast, the world&#8217;s top producer of raw cashew nuts, is attracting major international agribusiness investors as it shifts from raw exports to local processing Output is forecast to reach 1.2 million tons in 2025&#8211;up from 565,000 tons in 2014&#8211;yet only 30% of nuts were processed domestically To accelerate industrialization, the Cotton and Cashew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,49070,17391,17195,6560,5958,6183,6555,5959,13650,12375,6212,6559,1218,257,254],"class_list":["post-196100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agroindustry","tag-boom","tag-cashew","tag-coast","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-draws","tag-giants","tag-global","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}