Date:18/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/18/stories/2008071855611900.htm

Business

Cashing-in

— Photo: K. K. Mustafah

PRICES shoot UP: A vendor selling cashew nut in Thrissur. Cashew nut prices have reached an all-time high in global markets owing to a crisis in the industrial sector in Vietnam and Brazil, major cashew producers.