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Apart from poor husbandry, the drop in cashew nut production has also been occasioned by an increasing number of aging trees.
Farmers are not planting enough new trees and they have not embraced proper crop husbandry. The Coast region had 2.1 million trees in 2009 according to a cashew-nut-tree census and baseline survey carried out by Agriculture Business Development Today's Micro Enterprises Support Programme Trust.
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