Factories shut down, eliminating many jobs and reducing the domestic demand for raw nuts. The additional income accruing to the farmers was around USD 5.3 million, or USD 5.30 per year for the average cashew-growing household, but 90% of the cashew processing workers appealed still unemployed in 2001. By 2002, production had recovered to only 50 000 tonnes, or 5% of the world’s total, of which none were processed locally, and the Mozambican cashew industry was worth around USD 80 000.