Maputo — Exports of cashew nuts, both raw nuts and processed kernels, earned Mozambique about five billion meticais (around 81 million US dollars, at current exchange rates) over the last seven months, according to data released on Wednesday, at a national meeting of the cashew sector, held in the town of Gurue, in the central province of Zambezia.
Opening the meeting, the Zambezia provincial governor, Abdul Razak, cited in Thursday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias", said that, if all Mozambican cashew production had been processed locally, then there would have been many more gains in terms of employment and export revenue.
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