The Cashew and Rural Development Center in Itoculo started in 1996 with the mission of training small farming producers and cashew producers to improve their farming production capacity and the processing of their products, as well to improve their economic situation.

Its mission is also to assist rural area populations to improve their access to drinking water and their hygiene and to build the capacity of families to prevent diseases, child mortality and malnutrition and to promote education, health and safe food.

Through cashew itself – and other productions, such as the processing – to improve financial income and to be able to participate in rural development.

ADPP Cashew Plantation has a cashew research and training institution which promotes cashew as a cashew crop for rural farmers and provides training for the farmers. It has affiliate cashew processing units, and a cashew juice factory.