Cashew Industry

The United States is a distant second, accounting for 10-15 per cent of global consumption

Most units will not take in fresh kernels and will only work on partially-processed stocks lying with them

Cashew Export Promotion Council of India was asked to file an anti-dumping investigation request with the DGTR

The increase in costs is due to a hike in import duty on raw cashew kernels from 45 per cent to 70 per cent, in the Union Budget for 2019-20

The industry had earlier sought the govt to look at the issues related to the higher wages and bonus and bring in some conditions so that the wage levels in effect can come down