s handful of full-time staff is boosted by dozens of local casual workers, who come to pick the cashew windfalls, separating the nut from the fruit. "Picking the cashew is a lot of work," says Obeng-Nketiah. "We hire young people from the local area to do the picking. We pay them per kilo picked – for every 10 kilos they collect, we give them the value of one kilo." The recruitment of children in cashew...
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