Just stocking the nuts costs Lahiru more than $65,000 each year. Lahiru: Because cashews are a seasonal fruit. It is not something like coconut, in which you can get a harvest every month.

I'm trying to establish how the rather flimsy 30g bag of roasted cashew nuts she's selling, beside a sweltering highway in Ghana's capital, costs me the equivalent of about 75 cents (60p).

[Nehemiah Okwembah, Standard] Cashew nut farmers at the Coast should expect better prices in the next harvest season in January and February when the new Sh240 million European Union-funded ...