Climate

• Indonesia is one of the biggest tropical rain forests in the world. On Borneo, Sumatra, West Java, Papua, the Moluccas and Sulawesi there is an always humid tropical climate. Temperatures barely doesn't balance during the year and are on an average of 25°C to 27°C.
• At a relative humidity of 95 % and predominant doldrums the climate is said to be tropical humid sultriness.
• The average rainfall is between 2.000 mm and 4.000 mm a year.
• On the remaining Java Island and the small Sunda Islands monsoon rules the climate.
• Monsoon provides stable high temperature, but which can balance within 24 hours from 6° C to 12° C.
• The North East Monsoon entrains predominant dry air and thus releases a dry season (winter monsoon).
• During this period of low-grade condensation trees drop their leaves and run through a kind of recovery, where the so-called monsoon forests (bright, green forests with a distinctive herb layer) grow. The South West Monsoon collects humidity from the warm ocean and results high rainfalls on the continent, which can reach 50 mm a day and often ends in a overflow.
• The tropical climate and the very fertile volcanic ground which is very rich of minerals on the Isle of Flores (one of the small Sunda Islands western of Bali) is especially qualified for the cultivation of numerous further products like bananas, cane sugar, various spices, papaya und cocoa.

Harvest

• The harvest is proceeded in spring from February until April.
• Kept dry cashews can be stored for a long time and are durable for the whole year.
• Cashews are especially durable inside their peel, as the peel contains a substance which avoids vermins.

  

Processing

• Cashews are singly manual opened.
• To conserve all the valuable ingredients the nuts will not be homogenised.
• Experienced hands remove the dark-brown pellicle and without further treatment the cashews are eatable - a creamy delicate consumption.