Child labor is rampant in the cashew industry, which is known for its long hours and little pay. In 2013, The Guardian reported that cashew nut workers in India were making only $0.40 a day while ...

Forty thousand drug users are detained at any one time in Vietnam, and forced labor ... kilograms of cashews per person per day. Meeting a 5-kg quota requires husking about 4,800 nuts.

This is the life of Pushpa Gandhi, 30, in southern India, who supports her family as a cashew nut sheller ... and hygienic working conditions, no child labour, living wages and regular employment ...

Women who shell cashew nuts for as little as £2 a day are regularly ... to ensure safe and hygienic working conditions, no child labour, living wages and regular employment is guaranteed to ...

This intricate process, taking up to six days per batch, is compounded by fluctuating costs, a shrinking labour pool, and a limited supply of raw cashew nuts. Talking to about the challenges ...

Eleven of them are girls. Cashew processing unit is categorised as hazardous under Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986. “Two separate cases have been registered against owners of ...

Some factories resort to unregulated labour practices to reduce production costs. At the same time, many nut suppliers have opted to exploit cashew shellers where working conditions are less ...

ABIDJAN, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast cashew processors ... cost-effective to export raw nuts and process them in Asia because of the high costs of power and labour in Ivory Coast.