Having to wait months for payments is nothing new for cashew farmers and by late May they were still owed Sh100bn ($40m) according to Agriculture Minister Japhet Hasunga who like Kakunda was appointed last November with a mandate to implement the President's cashew directives...
Still at the end of March the minister of agriculture Japhet Hasunga announced that the government intended to prosecute 'at least' 780 people for trading in cashewnuts without business licences...
