-whilst villagers lament their poverty
LEFT TO rot on the ground and to be trodden underfoot, the cashew nut, one of nature’s most prized nuts, is allowed to go to waste, although villagers stand to make millions from processing and selling this most delicious delicacy.
When roasted or fried, this delectable treat sells for up to four times the price of its more popular relative — the peanut.
The cashew nut is quite a scarce commodity in Georgetown.  One occasionally encounters a street vendor selling the imported variety; howbeit, because of the prohibitively high price of this import, sale is reputedly very slow.
Meanwhile, abundant cashew trees grow uncultivated in the sandy villages along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway, especially at Yarrowkabra, where they shed their products en masse, only to be trodden underfoot and left to rot on the ground, with no regard for the fact that this is one of the few gifts of nature allowed to grow in the extant hostile conditions that obtain there. 
Certain villagers gather nuts to roast for their personal use, while others, seemingly unaware of their blessing, allow it to go to waste.
Some residents are now hoping to convert this overlooked good fortune into a situation by which they profit from marketing processed cashew nuts.
One villager explained that preparation of the nuts is a specialized operation, since the shell contains an oil that causes blisters when it comes into contact with human skin.  “You have to roast it in such a way that the oil drains away from the nut before you handle or eat it,” he said. 
What emerges from the roasting process is milky and very tasty, and, as stated above, sells for far more than the perennial peanut.
Guyana presently imports cashew nuts, but some are of the opinion that the local industry can take root and flourish, sufficiently to supply both the local and export markets.