VINACAS toldprocessors to pay special attention to the steps of drying, removingtesta, and packaging while carefully examining the quality of rawmaterials.
The processors were also asked toseparately process cashew hailing from different sources to ensure therate of broken nuts is below 10 percent in line with the 2012 standardsof the US’s Association of Food Industries.
Duringthe first nine months of 2014, cashew exports posted a 19.6-percentyear-on-year rise in volume to 225,000 tonnes and a 21.8-percentyear-on-year surge in value to 1.46 billion USD, according to theMinistry of Industry and Trade.
Vietnam has 338 plants processing cashew for export to more than 80 countries and territories worldwide.
The US, China and the Netherlands are Vietnam’s biggest cashew importers.
In 2013, cashew exports brought home 1.8 billion USD.-VNA