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Cashews grow in select tropical climates around the world, from the bottom of a hanging fruit like this.
Les noix de cajou poussent dans certains climats tropicaux à travers le monde, à la base d'un fruit pendant comme celui-ci.
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Just one kilogram of cashews can cost $10 wholesale.
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That's over seven times as much as peanuts.
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And in the U .S., retail prices for whole cashews can reach $15 per pound.
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But without intensive, precise processing, these nuts wouldn't be edible at all.
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So how exactly are cashews processed?
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And is this what makes them so expensive?
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In 2017, the world ate 770 ,000 metric tons of cashews.
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They're one of the most popular and valuable nuts in the world, worth over $6 billion today.
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Cashews grow in tropical locations like India, Vietnam, Ivory Coast, and here in Sri Lanka.
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The trees are a member of the same family as poison ivy.
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And like poison ivy, cashew plants contain a toxin called urushiol.
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It's found in the plant itself and the brown oil inside a nut's shell.
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It can cause burns, itches, and blisters, which is why unprocessed cashews are considered dangerous to eat or touch.
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It's also why they require more rigorous processing than other nuts.
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Each fruit grows just one shelled nut, called a droop, which workers separate by hand.
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The nuts must then dry under the sun to help draw out some of the shell's caustic liquid.
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The most difficult and dangerous step is splitting open the nut, since toxic oil still coats the droops.
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Cashews are brittle, so factories used to do this step manually to ensure machines wouldn't break the nuts.
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But doing this by hand has frequently raised issues within the industry.
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NGOs have called out some factories for overworking employees
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and putting workers at risk of burning themselves if they can't afford to buy gloves for protection.
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Today machines are advanced enough to crack the shells cleanly, keeping the majority of nuts intact and helping minimize risks to workers.
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After a machine splits open the shells, the next two crucial stages totally depend on workers, who have to do them by hand.
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The nuts are roasted to ensure, again, that the toxic liquid inside is destroyed.
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The next stage is particularly tedious, as it relies entirely on handiwork.
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workers must peel off the husk or the dry outer covering
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that surrounds each nut because it's high in tannins
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and could irritate your throat removing
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it is a skill one masters with practice experienced workers de -skin only about two
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and a half kilograms of cashews each night this step is not only difficult
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but also has the biggest impact on price
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Cashews are graded by several features, like color, weight, and condition.
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Large whole nuts are most valuable.
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If you have a lot of cashews, you can get a lot of cashews.
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Because cashews can only be harvested once a year, growers like Laharu save a portion of the nuts in stock
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so that they can continue making a profit in the months ahead.
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But it comes at a steep cost.
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Just stocking the nuts costs Laharu more than $65 ,000 each year.
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If you buy some of the cashews, you can buy some of the cashews.
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If you buy some of the cashews, you can buy some of the cashews.
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This causes prices to fluctuate a bit year -round.
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In December, Laharu's supply has decreased, so prices typically increase.
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But it also depends on each country's supply chain.
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While Sri Lanka processes and sells many of its own cashews domestically, other countries export much of what they grow.
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It's likely that many of the cashews you buy in the U .S or Europe were grown in Africa, processed in Vietnam or India,
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and finally exported to the Western market.
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Africa produces half of the world's supply of cashews.
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Ivory Coast, for example, produced about 730 ,000 metric tons of raw cashews in 2019.
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But it exported over 90 % of that.
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This is because Ivory Coast and other African countries still don't have a robust processing industry.
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Ivory Coast plans to expand domestic processing by 2024, but without it, cashews are significantly less valuable. In 2018,
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the export price of cashews processed in India
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and exported to Europe was 250 % higher than the price paid to Ivory Coast farmers customers.
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Vietnam, on the other hand, was one of the first countries to invest in automation, making it a key location for processing cashews.
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Today Vietnam is the largest cashew exporter in the world.
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In just the first three months of 2021, the country exported over 108 ,000 tons of cashews.
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Automation has also lessened the need to hire workers, which is a reason many factories in India and Sri Lanka still process manually.
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By hand or machine, processing cashews is no easy task.
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And the world's climate crisis could make it even harder.
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A 2013 report on the climate's impact on cashews shows unseasonal rains
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and heavy dew can impact the quality and quantity of the nuts.
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Just this year, Lahiru's harvest came late because of it.
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We're going to eat the nut and the nut.
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Amidst climate challenges, cashews continue to be popular.
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Healthy eating trends are key to driving demand, along with the versatility of the cashew itself, another reason the nut remains so valuable.
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Whether used as a snack, cooking paste, or an alternative to milk or butter, cashews have many applications around the world.
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researchers predict the market will grow to $7 billion by 2025.
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And although cashews are currently cheaper than they've been in recent years, demand is likely to drive prices higher in the future.

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Cette leçon d’expression orale s’appuie sur la vidéo « Why Cashew Nuts Are So Expensive ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : cashew, nut, workers, price, processing. Cette vidéo contient 78 phrases et 960 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 8:20. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 115 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. Seuls 76 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

15 mots de la vidéo à retenir, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

MotPrononciationSens
worker nom/ˈwɝ.kɚ/travailleur, travailleuse
export nom/ˈɛks.pɔɹt/exportation
shell nom/ʃɛl/coquille, coquillage
ton nom/tʌn/tonne
liquid nom/ˈlɪk.wɪd/liquide
toxic adjectif/ˈtɒk.sɪk/toxique
depend verbe/dɪˈpɛnd/dépendre
tropical adjectif/ˈtɹɑ.pɪ.kəl/tropical
poison nom/ˈpɔɪ.zən/poison
harvest nom/ˈhɑɹ.vəst/récolte
metric adjectif/ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/métrique
automation nom/ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/automatisation
manually adverbe/ˈmænj(u)əliː/manuellement, à la main
select verbe/sɪˈlɛkt/choisir, sélectionner
skill nom/skɪl/habileté, compétence

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MotSens
call out verbepréciser, spécifier
draw out verbefaire durer, prolonger

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Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :

StructureDans la vidéo
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le faitare considered · are roasted · are graded
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenanthave called · has decreased · has also lessened
Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une choseblisters, which is · workers, which is

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 7 contractions et formes réduites, comme wouldn't, can't, don't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: shell /ʃɛl/, automation /ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/, crucial /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/, cashew /ˈkæʃuː/, urushiol /ʊˈɹuːʃiˌɔl/
  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: automation /ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/, manually /ˈmænj(u)əliː/, urushiol /ʊˈɹuːʃiˌɔl/, versatility /ˌvɜː.səˈtɪl.ɪ.tiː/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

  • /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: harvest /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/, hire /ˈhaɪɹ/, wholesale /ˈhoʊlseɪl/, handiwork /ˈhændiˌwɝk/, husk /hʌsk/
  • /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: researcher /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/, fluctuate /ˈflʌkt͡ʃu.eɪt/, itch /ɪt͡ʃ/
  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: export /ˈɛks.pɔɹt/, tropical /ˈtɹɑ.pɪ.kəl/, harvest /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/, metric /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/, crack /kɹæk/

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  2. Répétez phrase par phrase à vitesse normale, en reprenant chacune jusqu’à ce que votre rythme corresponde à celui du locuteur.
  3. Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme worker, export, shell.

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