Macadamia Marketing & Post-Harvest Operations Best Practice: Commercializing Your Macadamia Crop

This practical guide provides farmers, aggregators, and value chain actors with step-by-step best practices for marketing macadamia nuts and managing post-harvest operations to maximise quality, reduce losses, and increase profitability. It outlines key marketing options, quality standards, and handling systems that help producers meet buyer requirements and secure reliable revenue streams. 

The document includes clear process diagrams, record templates, and operational guidance covering stages from harvest weighing and dehusking through drying, sorting, storage, and dispatch. For example, the workflow diagram on slide 11 illustrates the full post-harvest system from nut collection to packaging, while tables on slides 14–21 demonstrate how to track batch quality, reject rates, and stock records to improve decision-making and traceability.

It also explains how quality management directly affects income, showing in a sample table on slide 22 that removing lower-quality nuts can significantly increase price per kilogram and overall revenue. 

Designed as a practical learning resource, this guide supports farmers and stakeholders to strengthen market readiness, improve product consistency, and build a strong reputation with buyers in formal markets.