PANJIM/MARGAO, April 25 -- Already hit by fall in cashew production, mainly due to weather vagaries, low support price and import of non-Goan cashew into the markets have made matters worse for cashew farmers of Goa.

Farmers have said that after paying wages and putting all the effort into processing, the farmer is left with very little money.

The farmers have insisted on declaring a cashew drought as they have predicted that compared to last year the yield is only 50 per cent.

The Agriculture Department had earlier already agreed to the fact that the yield of cashews has reduced to an alarming 50 per cent compared to last year.

One of the premier cashew processing units of Adarsh Krishi Co-operative Society has revealed that they had...