Crop intelligence
Cashew traced from nursery to trade.
Cashew loses value to pests, disease and post-harvest handling. Cropin forecasts yield, sends disease and pest advisories and traces nuts from nursery to trade; INCAJU has digitized 50,000+ cashew farmers with it.
What Cropin tracks
Tree inventory, kernel quality and pest risk.
Connect plot observations, Earth observation, weather and crop-specific models to production, sourcing and risk workflows.
Ivory Coast and India grow 46% of the world’s cashew.
Cashew, native to Brazil, is a commercially important crop grown in tropical regions. In 2023, global production of cashew nuts (as the kernel) was 3.9 million tonnes, led by the Ivory Coast and India with a combined 46% of the world total.
The cashew industry is a crucial source of foreign exchange earnings for many producing countries, particularly in West Africa and Asia.
Cashew crop stages, in order
- 1Pruning and recoveryCanopy · sanitation · renewal
- 2Vegetative flushVigor · nutrition · pests
- 3Panicle initiationTiming · weather · nutrition
- 4FloweringPollination · heat · humidity
- 5Fruit setRetention · pest pressure
- 6Nut developmentSize · health · moisture
- 7Apple and nut maturityColor · quality · timing
- 8HarvestCollection · quality · supply
Cashew value is lost in the field and after harvest.
Cashew cultivation is increasingly affected by climate change and are susceptible to various pests and diseases. Significant post-harvest losses occur due to the perishability of the cashew apple and improper handling of raw nuts.
- How programmes use Cropin on cashew
- Monitor cashew produce from ‘Tree to Trade’ with accurate traceability
- Timely advisories for farmers to take precautions against disease outbreaks and pest infestations
- Accurately estimate the yield for simplifying the production chain function
- Capture crop data at every point to prove compliance with authorities and follow standard PoP activities
70+ local staff run INCAJU’s cashew programme on SmartFarm.
- Real-time monitoring across the programme
- Traceability from nursery to trade
- 70+Local staff using SmartFarm
- 50,000+Farmers digitized, with another 50,000 in the pipeline
1,184,039acres of cashew digitized on Cropin across all programmes
Deployed in 7 countries
Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Togo, Cambodia, India, Georgia, Colombia
Further reading
Other crops on the platform
Cashew runs on the same platform as 400+ other crops: field records, satellite observation, weather and crop models, read together through the Crop Knowledge Grid.