At the end of the last Council of Ministers, held on Wednesday 19 February, the Beninese government has decided to set the purchase price of a kilogram of cashew nuts at 325 CFA francs ($0.53) during the 2019-2020 season, which opens on 19 March. This is a hard blow for farmers in the sector, who are thus suffering - in the wake of the trend in world prices - the second consecutive year-on-year drop in the price after the price dropped from 650 CFA francs/kg to 400 CFA francs/kg between the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 seasons.