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Blood cashews is the media term for a 2011 Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on cashew production in Vietnam, The Rehab Archipelago, which claimed human rights abuses in the use of people in drug-detention centres. [1] [2] Vietnam is known as the world's largest cashew nut exporter with 24.5 percent share [3] of the global cashew
Due to the trade liberalization and agricultural reforms in Vietnam, the value of exports in the agricultural sector increased manifold with the main export commodities being rice, coffee, pepper and cashew nut, but also rubber, tea, groundnut, soybean, fruit and vegetables, and pork. [7] Vietnam produced, in 2018:
Cashew nuts are an important export product for Bình Phước as well as Vietnam in general. Exports in 2010 are expected to reach US$1 billion, while there are also increasing imports of raw cashew nuts because processing capacity by now significantly exceeds the quantity grown in Vietnam. [9]
These raw nuts are exported for processing in Vietnam and India where they can be de-shelled and sold for greater profit. [5] [7] [8] In 2018, extracted cashew nuts from India sold for three times higher than what cashew farmers in the Ivory Coast were paid for raw cashews. [6]
Vietnam is the world's largest cashew exporter. In 2003, Vietnam produced an estimated 30.7 million cubic meters of wood. Production of sawn wood was a more modest 2,950 cubic meters. In 1992, in response to dwindling forests, Vietnam imposed a ban on the export of logs and raw timber. In 1997, the ban was extended to all timber products except ...
It is now the world's largest producer of cashew nuts, with a one-third global share; [312] the largest producer of black pepper, accounting for one-third of the world's market; [313] and the second-largest rice exporter in the world after Thailand since the 1990s. [314] Subsequently, Vietnam is also the world's second largest exporter of ...
Vietnam's foreign trade has been growing fast since state controls were relaxed in the 1990s. The country imports machinery, refined petroleum, and steel; it exports crude oil, textiles and garments, and footwear. The balance of trade has in the past been positive but recent statistics (2004) showed that it was negative.