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Cashew is Healthy for the Entire Family
Cashew's Contribution to the Planet,
People and Prosperity
People
“Cashew processing provides
year-round direct employment
to over 800,0000 people, over
70% of whom are women in tier-2
and tier-3 cities (roughly 20 crore
mandays of employment a year).”
Source: Cashewinformation.com
Cashew processing
clusters
Planet
Traditionally, cashew tree is grown to con-
serve soil. In Central Africa, it is found that
one hectare of cashew plantation of 10 years
age captures and stores roughly about 60
tons of Carbon in bark, branch, roots, and
soil carbon. While 20 years cashew plantation
stores roughly about 82 tons of Carbon.
India has over 1 million hectares of cashew
plantation. Thus, cashew plantations is a very
good choice for reforestation.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/
17583004.2020.1858682
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