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Contact SupplierCashew nut, the third widely consumed edible tree nut, is a single seeded fruit of a tropical
evergreen tree. This nut develops over from a sweet tasting false fruit, which is of red or yellow colour. These are largely grown in India (the world’s largest producer of cashew kernels), Brazil,Vietnam and some of the African countries.
The cashew tree, native to Brazil, was introduced to India in the sixteenth century by the Portuguese, as a means of controlling coastal erosion. Cashew processing, using manual techniques,was started in India in the first half of the twentieth century.