BIOTAN is a start-up company which started operations in 2016 in Tanzania. While Tanzania has a huge potential in growing cashew nuts and the country is the eighth largest producer of cashew nuts in the world, almost 90% of the value chain from the farmers to the consumer is made outside of Tanzania, mainly by Indian and Vietnamese companies, which buy the raw cashew nuts and ship it to Asia for further processing.

BIOTAN is facing this challenge and in a first step the company has implemented a cashew nut processing factory with a capacity of 2.000 tons of raw cashew nuts per year. They sell their Organic Cashew Nuts mainly to European buyers.