Top 10 Cashew Nut producing countries in the world - production and area under cultivation [2019]

Last Modified: Sun Jun 27 2021 05:30:39 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
  • 792,678 tonnes
    Côte d’Ivoire - Ranked #1, the country accounts for 20% of total world Cashew Nut production. Cultivated over 1,913,073 hectares. Yield: 4,143 hg/ha.
  • 743,000 tonnes
    India - Ranked #2, the country accounts for 18.75% of total world Cashew Nut production. Cultivated over 1,105,000 hectares. Yield: 6,724 hg/ha.
  • 607,300 tonnes
    Burundi - Ranked #3, the country accounts for 15.33% of total world Cashew Nut production. Cultivated over 276,365 hectares. Yield: 10,252 hg/ha.
  • 283,328 tonnes
    Vietnam - Ranked #4, the country accounts for 7.15% of total world Cashew Nut production. Cultivated over 743,192 hectares. Yield: 192,192 hg/ha.
  • 242,329 tonnes
    Philippines - Ranked #5, the country accounts for 6.11% of total world Cashew Nut production. Cultivated over 286,88 hectares. Yield: 84,471 hg/ha.
  • 225,106 tonnes
    Tanzania - Ranked #6, the country accounts for 5.68% of total world Cashew Nut production. Cultivated over 980,363 hectares. Yield: 2,296 hg/ha.
  • 204,302 tonnes
    Benin - Ranked #7, the country accounts for 5.15% of total world Cashew Nut production. Cultivated over 573,204 hectares. Yield: 3,564 hg/ha.
  • 167,621 tonnes
    Mali - Ranked #8, the country accounts for 4.23% of total world Cashew Nut production. Cultivated over 40,009 hectares. Yield: 41,896 hg/ha.
  • 166,190 tonnes
    Guinea-Bissau - Ranked #9, the country accounts for 4.19% of total world Cashew Nut production. Cultivated over 279,610 hectares. Yield: 5,944 hg/ha.
  • 138,754 tonnes
    Brazil - Ranked #10, the country accounts for 3.50% of total world Cashew Nut production. Cultivated over 426,417 hectares. Yield: 3,254 hg/ha.
  • 3,960,680 tonnes
    Total world production of Cashew Nut. Cultivated over 7,091,275 hectares. The top 10 producing countries account for 90.15% of global production.