Priority project · Agribusiness
Project Anacardia
Guinea-Bissau grows one of the world's great cashew crops and ships almost all of it away raw. Project Anacardia builds the country's first modern at-origin kernel processor in Bissau — and keeps the value at home.
Delivered by Bissau Kernel Co.
The figures
The opportunity
Cashew is roughly 90% of Guinea-Bissau's export earnings and income for around two-thirds of households. Under a tenth of the crop is processed at home. The rest leaves as raw nuts to be shelled, graded and packed elsewhere — which is where the margin, the jobs and the brand all end up.
Shelling at origin captures that step. It turns a commodity sold at farmgate prices into a graded, packed, export-ready food product with a buyer on the other end, and it does so in the country that grew it.
The project
A semi-automated cashew processing facility in Bissau, sized for 15,000 tonnes of raw nut a year in Phase I and designed to scale toward 50,000 tonnes.
The plant is built to international food-safety standards, including non-thermal pasteurisation, so output meets the specifications buyers in Northern Europe and the Gulf already require. Demand in those markets has been confirmed ahead of build.
Why it works
- The at-origin processing model is already proven elsewhere in West Africa — this is execution, not invention.
- Value is retained in-country: shelling, grading and packing all happen before the product leaves.
- A right-sized plant keeps Phase I capital-efficient and de-risks the step up to full build.
Impact
- 650 formal jobs when at full capacity.
- Sourcing from smallholder producers, paid through a traceable supply chain.
- A share of operating profit committed to a registered local public-interest foundation.
Aligned to SDGs 1 · 5 · 8 · 9 · 12
How to engage
The figures published here are headline only. Qualified investors receive the full Information Memorandum, the financial model and data-room access under NDA.
From there the process runs to management sessions and site due diligence in Bissau, coordinated through the investor desk.
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Take Project Anacardia further.
A named officer at the investor desk will route your enquiry to the sponsor and set up access under NDA.