Cashew fruit are too fragile for export from the tropics where they grow. Fresh cashew ‘fruit’ has a very short shelf-life so is used as soon as it has fallen from the tree. In some parts of ...

Lahiru Dushyantha: Usually, people think that cashew products just come to the market as they are. No, this is a very complex process. Narrator: Each fruit grows just one shelled nut, called a ...

Lahiru Dushyantha: Usually, people think that cashew products just come to the market as they are. No, this is a very complex process. Narrator: Each fruit grows just one shelled nut, called a ...

First we go to the trees, look for the cashews, carry them back, separate the nuts from the fruit - then you start pounding the fruit. "Sometimes we pound to fill four or five buckets. That makes ...