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We are building the plant that keeps Ivorian cashew in Côte d’Ivoire.
Lhacienda Corp is developing an integrated cashew operation: processing in Bondoukou, a European hub at PLAZA Zaragoza, and one traceable chain between them. We are pre-operational — and we say so.
Every figure above is a target at full capacity, not current performance. The Bondoukou line is not in production and nothing has shipped commercially yet.
Côte d’Ivoire grows two-fifths of the world’s cashew. Ten years ago it shelled six per cent of it.
Today the country runs 37 processing plants, exports more kernel than anyone but Vietnam, and has set itself a national target of processing more than half the crop by 2030. The policy is set and the capacity is arriving. What is still missing is the European end of the chain — and that is the half we are building.
Where the company actually stands.
Most sites in this sector open with numbers they have never delivered. Here is the honest version — it is also the version that survives a buyer’s audit.
What exists
- The company, its four divisions and its leadership
- The industrial concept: process in Gontougo, ship from Zaragoza
- Site identified in Bondoukou, in the growing region
- Relationships in the Gontougo producing area
- Pyro-Green shell-recovery programme in launch with the affiliated foundation
What we are building
- The Bondoukou processing line — shelling, drying, peeling, grading, packing
- The sourcing network and lot-registration system
- The European hub and cold chain at PLAZA, Zaragoza
- Food-safety certification path and quality lab
- First commercial lots and buyer trials
What we are looking for
- Offtake partners willing to trial the first commercial lots
- Equity and project finance for Phase 1
- Equipment suppliers and processing engineers
- Cooperatives joining a registered, traceable channel
Four businesses, one value chain.
Lhacienda Corp is built around a single conviction: value should be added where the crop grows. Each division exists to make that possible — and to make it bankable.
Foods
The cashew programme: grades, specifications and the quality regime the Bondoukou line is being built to meet.
Product programmeLogistics
The corridor: Bondoukou to PLAZA Zaragoza, designed leg by leg for an 18-day transit.
The corridorProjects
The industrial build-out itself: the plant, the storage, and energy recovery from cashew shells.
Roadmap to 2028Venture Capital
The businesses that have to exist around a processing plant — and that we intend to back.
Investment thesisFrom a site in Bondoukou to 50,000 tonnes.
A phased build-out. Each phase has to prove itself before the next one is financed.
Foundations
Company structure, site, sourcing relationships and Phase 1 financing. Pyro-Green enters its launch phase.
First line
Processing line commissioned in Bondoukou. Lot registration live. First commercial lots and buyer trials.
European hub
Conditioned storage at PLAZA, Zaragoza. The 18-day corridor run end to end, then measured against plan.
Full capacity
50,000 tonnes a year, 3,200 registered farmers, and the certifications a European buyer’s audit expects.
The shell is not waste. It is the next product.
Processing cashew at origin leaves one thing behind at scale: shells. Through the Lhacienda Esperanza Foundation, the Pyro-Green programme converts them into biochar and energy in Bondoukou — turning a by-product into soil, heat and local jobs.
Pyro-Green is in its launch phase, and it is the one part of the group already operating on the ground.
Early enough to shape the specification.
Buyers who engage now define the grades, the packing and the quality regime the line is built around.