Traditional methods of cashew processing Dr. Banana Krishna1, Polisetty V. Veeranjaneya Kumar2,3 1Asst. Professor., Head of the Department Department of Business Administration, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Ongole Campus, Ongole 2Reseach Scholor, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur 3Asst. Professor, Department of Business Administration, St. Ann's College of Engineering & Technology, Chirala Online published on 13 February, 2018. Abstract The cashew industry in India is eminently placed for a review, combining insights from a value chain as well as from the social embeddedness perspective. The cashew industry in India is eminently placed for an (re) examination combining insights from a value chain as well as from the social embeddedness perspective. India in general, and Kerala in particular, has a long engagement with the cultivation and processing of cashew The globalization has provided dual impact as one is with inculcating number of opportunities to various countries but another is with throwing challenges before developing countries as well as underdeveloped countries. The globalization has made an impact on the trade of different agricultural commodities like cashew. The cashew trade has an important contribution in India's international trade. India is major player in the international cashew market. The industry has been the subject of considerable research; the themes largely covered but studied independently, include, the economics of cultivation, the commercial aspects of import of raw nuts and exports of kernels, and the changing fortunes of the women labour involved in the processing of the raw nuts. The asymmetries are increasing in Indian Cashew-nut industry. Cashew Nut Shell Liquid (CNSL) is an important industrial raw material for resin manufacture and the shells can be burned to provide heat for the decorticating operation. The main commercial product of the cashew tree is the nut. In the main producing areas of East Africa and India, 95 per cent or more of the apple crop is not eaten, as the taste is not popular. To the best of our knowledge there are hardly any studies that have attempted to map a chain—combining cultivation, collection of nuts, storage and redistribution of nuts to processors, collection of processed nuts, aspects related to packaging and shipment of processed nuts, and thereafter tracing it to its final destination, namely, the supermarkets of the developed countries. The attempt in this exercise is to map such a chain despite the considerable paucity of information for several nodes in the chain. Top Keywords Cashew industry, eminently, cultivation, raw nuts, manufacture, globalization. Top |