Raw cashew nuts from Guinea-Bissau.Without a company in Guinea-Bissau.

We buy village by village, grade and store in Bafatá, stuff at our own warehouse and load at the port of Bissau. Where you’d rather not incorporate here, we can ship in our own name.

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A sheeted trailer standing on the quay directly alongside the hull of the vessel it will be loaded into.

Village scale to vessel hold

Buying

We buy where the nuts are grown

Purchasing happens at village level across the interior, lot by lot, on the scale and in front of the grower. Nothing is bought sight unseen from an intermediary.

  • Bafatá
  • Bambadinca
  • Bissau
A village buying point under cashew trees: filled jute sacks standing on red laterite beside a mechanical platform scale, with a heap of loose raw cashew nuts in the foreground.

Haulage

Then it moves, sheeted and roped, to Bissau

Loaded trailers run the corridor from the interior down to the capital. Each load is sheeted and roped before it leaves the yard, and weighed before it goes anywhere.

  • Bafatá
  • Bambadinca
  • Bissau
A loaded articulated truck standing on the weighbridge, its trailer sheeted end to end.

Grading and storage

Graded, tagged and stacked under our own roof

Lots are received, graded and stacked in the warehouse. The wall of jute is the stock, and it is ours to account for until it ships.

The inside of the warehouse, where jute sacks of raw cashew nuts are stacked into a wall several metres high while a crew works across the slope of the pile.

Stuffing

Stuffed and sealed for the vessel

Sacks are moved from the stack to the trailer and on to the quay, counted at each handover.

A line of loaded trucks waiting on the quay at Bissau beside the harbour cranes and the vessel.

Loading

And lifted into the hold at the port of Bissau

The harbour crane takes the sling off the quay and sets it into the hold. From there the cargo is on the water.

The yellow harbour crane lifting a sling of jute sacks clear of the quay against an open sky, with the vessel alongside.

Buying raw cashew nuts in West Africa usually means trusting a counterparty you cannot see. We would rather show you the warehouse, the lots and the quay, and let the chain make the argument.

What you get from one counterparty.

The inside of the warehouse, where jute sacks of raw cashew nuts are stacked into a wall several metres high while a crew works across the slope of the pile.

The stock is under our own roof

Not a broker’s promise against someone else’s warehouse. What we sell is what is stacked and accounted for.

We can export in our own name

If you would rather not incorporate in Guinea-Bissau or take out a licence, we can organise the shipment on your behalf, subject to contractual and regulatory validation.

Graded and tagged lot by lot

Every lot is received, graded and tagged on arrival, so a consignment can be traced back to what was bought and where.

A loaded trailer at the quay in Bissau being unloaded by hand, with a cargo net laid out on the concrete ready for lifting.

One counterparty to the quay

Buying, haulage, storage, stuffing and loading answer to the same name.

Visibility without a plane ticket

Stock, lots, contracts and shipment milestones in one client portal, so you can see where a consignment stands from wherever you are.

Shipping for JKT, a repeat buyer, since our first campaign together.

  • AgroTrucks
  • AgroStock
  • India
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Vietnam
  • FOB Bissau
  • CFR
  • CIF

Every lot starts on a village scale in the interior.

Map of Guinea-Bissau showing its nine administrative regions, with Bafatá highlighted

Bafatá

We buy at village level across the interior, then move every lot down to the port of Bissau. Hover a region to see its part.

And leaves Bissau for three markets.

World map showing raw cashew nut shipments leaving the port of Bissau for India, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam
  • Port of Bissau
  • India
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Vietnam

Control your stock from anywhere.

A client portal for stock, lots, contracts and shipment milestones. It is in preparation, so what follows is a preview rather than the live product.

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Stock

Illustrative preview

What is in the warehouse right now, by lot.

LotReceivedStatus
Lot referenceDate receivedIn store
Lot referenceDate receivedIn store
Lot referenceDate receivedAllocated

Lot detail

Illustrative preview

Where a lot was bought, graded and stored.

Origin region
Region
Purchase date
Date
Grading
Recorded on intake
Storage
Warehouse bay

Contracts

Illustrative preview

Terms, incoterm and documents against each contract.

  • Contract termsDocument
  • IncotermDocument
  • Certificate of originDocument
  • Bill of ladingDocument

Shipment milestones

Illustrative preview

The stages a consignment has passed.

  1. Stuffed
  2. Sealed
  3. At quay
  4. Loaded
  5. Sailed

The operation, photographed.

The Bafata Agri Resources team gathered in front of the loaded trucks, with the company's own consignment placards in the windscreens.

The team in front of the loaded fleet, our consignment placards in the windscreens.

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Questions buyers ask first.

When does the Guinea-Bissau cashew campaign start in 2027?

Two dates matter, and they are not the same one. Campaign preparation opens in February 2027: volumes are reserved, logistics are planned, and contracts and documents are framed. The official Guinea-Bissau campaign opens in April 2027, once the government sets the reference price, and village-level buying starts then. Buyers who wait for the official opening are negotiating for what is left.

Do I need a company or an export licence in Guinea-Bissau to buy raw cashew nuts?

Not necessarily. Where a buyer would rather not incorporate locally or take out a new export licence, Bafata Agri Resources can organise the export in its own name, subject to contractual and regulatory validation. That is the arrangement most of our conversations start from.

Where do the nuts come from?

We buy at village level across the interior of Guinea-Bissau, region by region, with Bafata as our home base. Lots are graded and tagged on intake, stored in our own warehouse, then hauled to the port of Bissau for stuffing and loading.

Have you exported for anyone we can name?

JKT is a repeat buyer we have shipped for. Our consignment placards are in the windscreens of the trucks photographed on this page. We do not list buyers who have not agreed to be named.

Which markets do you ship to?

India, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. Every consignment leaves through the port of Bissau.

What outturn can I expect?

Outturn is recorded per lot on intake and stated per contract. We do not publish a headline KOR figure, because a single number across a campaign would not mean anything for the lot you are actually buying.

Which incoterms do you work on?

FOB Bissau is the usual basis. Other terms can be agreed as part of the contract.

How do I follow a consignment once it is bought?

A client portal covering stock, lots, contracts and shipment milestones is in preparation, so you can see where a consignment stands without travelling. The screens shown on this page are an illustrative preview rather than the live product.

How do we start?

Tell us the destination country, the volume you are looking for and the incoterm you work on, and we will come back with what we can commit to for the coming campaign.

The 2027 campaign is decided before it opens.

Preparation opens in February 2027 and the official campaign in April 2027. Tell us what you need and we will come back with what we can commit to.

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