THE government is in talks with a British investor to set up cashew nut processing plant to control export of raw cashew which stands at 90 per cent of all that is harvested in the country.
Cashewnut Board of Tanzania (CBT) report shows that Tanzania in 2012 produced about 158,000 metric tonnes of cashew nuts but less than 10 per cent was processed internally thus denying the country income and employment opportunities.
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