Our Cashews

Premium Cashews, Single Origin, Consistent Taste

Sonata exports premium cashews from single-origin with consistent taste to the US, UK, and Europe.

We have identified a cluster of villages over several years of R&D to source the best nuts and provide our customers with premium cashews with consistent taste.

What you gain when you buy from us.

  • We honour our contracts.
  • We deliver what we promise.
  • Nuts traceability to origin farmers cluster.
  • Consistent taste with single-origin raw cashew nuts.
  • You can reduce your Asia supply chain risk by buying from Africa.

How you make the world better when you buy from us.

  • Reducing carbon footprint by processing cashews at the origin.
  • Commitment to local employment and community building.
  • Women empowerment by training them to take up leadership roles.
  • No child labour in the entire value chain to produce finished edible cashew nuts.
  • Support RCN producing countries with GDP growth, employment, and forex earnings.

We have set-up state-of-the art, a new generation cashew processing plant to process raw cashew nuts at origin with installed capacity of over 30,000+ tons in Cote D’Ivoire.

We work directly with cashew farmers, supporting them on good agronomic practices and harvest handlings, an inclusive development of communities for producing cashew nuts and incorporate world class standards in operations, producing high quality nuts fully compliant on food safety, code of conduct and traceability. We are currently exporting to US, UK, Europe and Asia

Sonata pillars of sustainability and market compliance status in Cote D’Ivoire

Sonata group’s success comes from its way of doing business, it is not short-term profits but a sustainable way of growing business, making sure it is resilient enough to sustain its growth and profits. Sonata businesses sustainability incorporates in six pillars, composed of:

• Globally competitive - Economically competitive position, processing & farms.

• Full traceability - Complete traceability from farm to fork, single origin nuts.

• Inclusive growth -Thriving communities, prosperous farmers, employment, education & skills.

• Food safety - processed under well compliant food safety international standards.

• Code of conduct - Safe working conditions, ethical practices, production processes are socially responsible and environmentally friendly.

• Certifications - Sonata already got HACCP, BRC, Kosher, Halal, Smeta & Organic certification, in both the origins where it operates.

To organize supply chain of RCN, and address the existing challenges, Sonata International initiated farmer linkage program in 2020 to establish direct linkages with smallholder farmers with the help of USDA- Pro cashew partner in Cote D’Ivoire. Sonata International has worked in three main regions Marahoue, Bere and Hambol and border areas of region having boundaries of these regions, like Gbeke, Tchologo respectively.