Irin wahalar da manoman kashu ke sha a Guinea Bissau

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Quinta Cabi, Meia Nianta, and Milu Antonia Da Silva squeeze the juice from cashew apples. They will ferment the juice and then sell it as cashew wine for domestic consumption. Nianta said they can make around 5,000 cfa a day from selling the locally made brew.

15 Yuni 2021

Kashu ce babbar abinda Guinesa Bissau ke fitarwa zuwa kasashen waje don samun kudin shiga, to amma manoman ƙasar na cin kwakwa kafin su ci moriyar nomanta kamar yadda za a iya gani a cikin wadannan hotuna.

Alciony Fernandez, 14 years old, poses with her four kilos of cashews from her family farm she says she sells at 350 CFA per kilogram at a small store outside the capital, Bissau, has a scale that local cashew producers can use to weigh their crop. She walked about thirty minutes to the store to weigh the cashews.

Alciony Fernandez ta fito ne daga gidan da a ke noman kashuna, kuma kamar yadda ake iya gani tana shirin ɗaukar ƴaƴanta zuwa kasuwa don ta saida.

A duk kilo ɗaya za ta samu kudin CFA 350 wanda ya yi dai dai da 0.65 na dalar Amurka.

Quinta Cabi and Meia Nianta squeeze the juice from cashew apples. They will ferment the juice and then sell it as cashew wine for domestic consumption. Nianta said they can make around 5,000 cfa a day from selling the locally made brew.

Farashin da gwamnati ta saka wa kayan gona a Guinea Bissau ya fado da kashi daya bisa uku tun shekarar da ta wuce, kuma akan ya faru ne saboda zuwan annobar Korona.

Bugu da ƙari tun farkon shekarar nan manoman kashuna a Guinea Bissau ke fama da harajin da gwamnati ta ƙaƙaba na CFA 15 ga duk kilo daya na kashuna.

Hakan ya sa masu fitar da kayan gonar suka fara tunanin canza shawara game da sayenta saboda ƙarin kudin da ake musu.

Meia Nianta collects cashew nuts and apples from her 1.5 hectare farm just outside of the capital city, Bissau. She said the harvest starts in March and wraps up around June in the West African country. She usually works from mid-afternoon until late in the evening.

Amma a watan da ya gabata an samu sauƙi, bayan da gwamnati ta cire tara ga manoma, ta kuma rage haraji kan kayan gona da manoma ke fitarwa.

Guinea Bissau ta saba fitar da kashuna ton 200,000 a duk shekara, to amma a bara ya sauko zuwa 160,000.

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Sai dai kuma wan labari marar daɗin ji shi ne Indiya da ta fi kowace ƙasa sayen kashuna daga Guinea Bissau na fama da annobar Korona, a cewar Mamadou Yerro Djamanca na kungiyar masu fitar da kashuna daga Guinea Bissau.

Ya kara da cewa kayan gonar na nan jibge a ƙauyuka manoma na jiran a zo a saye a fita da shi.

Cashews are Guinea Bissau's main export crop, and they accounted for more than half of the country's export revenue in 2019, according to Reuters. This year the government set the price of cashews at t 360 CFA francs ($0.65) per kg, which was a 28 precent decrease from last year.

Da zarar damina ta shigo musamman wuraren ƙarshen watan Mayu zuwa tsakiyar Yuni, abu ne mai wahala a iya dakon kashuna zuwa wasu bangaroran ƙasar saboda ambaliya da kuma taɓo.

Meia Nianta poses for a portrait outside of her home that sits next to her her 1.5 hectare cashew farm just outside of the capital city, Bissau. She said the harvest starts in March and wraps up around June in the West African country. She usually works from mid-afternoon until late in the evening.

Neia Nianta ta mallaki hekta 1.5 da ta ke noma kashuna a ciki, kuma tana girbi a tsakanin watannin Maris zuwa Yunin kowace shekara.

Ta kan shafe wuni tana aikin girbin.

Giyar kashuna wadda ake samarwa ta hanyar ruwanta ta yi suna a Guinea Bissau.

A nan Neia na aiki tare da Quinta Cabi. Sun ce suna samun cinikin kamar CFA 5,000 a rana na basarar kashuna.

A cewar Neia ''bara mun fi samun riba. Mun fi sayar da barasa mai yawa kuma da tsada.''

Ta kara da cewa '' annobar Korona ce ta kawo mana cikas bana.''

''Aikin matsar kashuna yana da matukar wahala. Na farko muna katso wa daga bishiyarta, daga nan kuma mu raba ta daga ƙodagonta, sannan mu fara matsarta.'' inji Neia.

A cewarta sukan cika bokiti huɗu ko biyar, wanda ke samar musu da lita 25 ta barasar.

On Kumus Da Silva's local small scale cashew juice creation site, after workers sift out cashew juice they bottle and stamp the bottles before it is warmed in metal barrels to prevent fermentation.

Amma kuma akwai abun sha da ake yi da ba shi da haɗi da giya, a cewar Kumus da Silva.

''Muna anfani da inji na gargajiya don matsa kashuna mu haɗa abun sha.'' inji Da Silva.

Kumus Da Silva (fight), inspects the fire cooking of cashews near his home just outside the capital. Da Silva supports his family with the cashews and cashew juice he sells domestically.

Ya kuma ce suna cire ƙodagon kafin su matse ta.

Kumus Da Silva de-shells a cashew nut at his small scale factory just outside the capital. The first year he made cashew juice he did not turn a profit, but now when they sell it to local restaurants they make 500 cfa per bottle (which sell for 2500 cfa).

A shekarar farko da ya hada abun sha na kashuna don sayarwa bai samu riba ba.

To amma yanzu yana samun CFA 500 a duk kwalba ɗaya idan ya sayar da ita ga gidajen abinci.

''Abin da ke bamu matsala shi ne rashin tallata hajarmu, saboda mutane ba sa nemanta don su saya idan ba mu muka tallata ta ba.''

''Saboda haka idan muka tallata musu ita da kansu za su riƙa nemanta''. in ji Da Silva.

Duk da kashuna ta zama kayan gona da ya samu karɓuwa a Guinea Bissau, har yanzu akwai babbar barazana da ke tunkaro masu nomanta da kuma raba ta, lura da yadda lamurra ke tafiya a halin yanzu.