Attractive, narrow shrub or small tree (Rhus, or Toxicodendron, vernix) of the sumac, or cashew, family, also called poison elder, native to swampy acidic soils of eastern North America.
Although still under construction, arise IIP's glowed Jigbay industrial zone, GDIZ is already processing cashew nuts and making clothes for Western markets.
Much of Africa's coffee, cashew and cocoa leaves the continent in packaging made abroad. Garment-makers stitch together imported fabrics with imported zips and buttons.
Like, when you're facing a life-or-death ordeal, you don't need to be digesting that cashew cluster in your intestines, or producing reproductive cells, or fighting off an infection.
Benin hopes that GIs will not only sweeten its pineapple exports-the fourth biggest in west Africa-but also make its sales of cashews, shea nuts and shea butter more fruitful.