Export & Export Potential of Cashew Kernels to Belgium, Germany & Netherlands

Abstract

India is one of the biggest producer, processor, exporter, and the second largest consumer of cashew kernels in the world. Cashew ranks second among agriculture and horticulture commodities exported from India. The country is earning nearly around Rs.25000 crores through the exports of cashew kernels annually. Over sixty five percent of cashew kernels of the world are accounted by India. Today India dominates world’s cashew market, over 685,000 hectares are under cashew cultivation here. India meets around 2/3rd of the world’s demand for cashew. USA is the largest buyer of Indian cashews. It was only developed in twentieth century. Indian cashews are consumed in over sixty countries all over the world major markets being the United States, New Zealand, European Union and Middle East countries. Vietnam is the largest producer of raw cashew followed by Brazil and India. India dominates and leads in cashew kernels export to European countries. The present study was taken to comprehend the trend of exports of Cashew Kernels from India to Belgium, Germany & to the Netherlands.Trend Analysis,RCA and Correlation was applied for analysis.