Kolkata: From butter chicken, khaju badam diya macher and pongal to shahi paneer, murgh korma and many more—it’s cashew all the way- in different avatars-whole, sliced and paste, if you are travelling to any destination from India on an Emirates flight. The connect is simple. Every year, India exports over 80,000 tonne of cashew kernels, valued at more than $900 million. Nearly 22 per cent of this revenue comes from cashew exports to the UAE, where Emirates is based. In 2017-18, UAE imported 21 per cent of India’s total cashew exports and became the largest importer of the nut.
