He is one of the pioneers who introduced cashew industry in Mangalore. In early 1940s Bola Raghavendra Kamath started cashew trading. Thereafter, in the year 1958 he took initiative to set up a cashew factory in Karkala.
Before this, no cashew factory was ever established in the rural area. Soon, this cashew industry emerged as the top cashew manufacturers in the state of Karnataka. |