Speaking with Vanguard, the National President, NCAN, Dr Ojo Ajanaku, said the cashew seedling is the natural variety, also called the Ogbomosho or Oyo State variety, which has a premium price, hence to be a uniform variety farmers will be cultivating.
According to Ajanaku, when the variety gets to a full-grown cashew tree by three years and it begins to bear fruits, which is globally sort for, which also processors and farmers highly demand for it, because of the high export value it has.
He said: “We are in about seven states now, where we are doing the seedling production to be distributed to our farmers.
“in Benue State, we have done 20,000; Kogi State 20,000; Edo State 40,000; Kwara State 20,000; Oyo State 30,000; Enugu State 50,000.
“But we got a collaboration from Beyond Farming Collective, they supported us with about 45,000 seedling production.
Courtesy: Vanguard Newspaper
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