Tesco is launching two new own-brand Fairtrade nut products in more than 600 stores nationwide - a chopped brazil and dried apricot mix and a peanut, cashew and dried mango mix.

The two new products will also be in more than 600 branches of Tesco in time for Fairtrade Fortnight, when its entire Fairtrade nut range will be sold at 20 per cent off.

More than 13,000 nut farmers in Malawi, Mozambique and India will benefit from these sales.

The chopped brazil and dried apricot product comes in 175g packs and the peanut/cashew/dried mango combination is in 150g packs.The organic dried mango in the new product is supplied by Tropical Wholefoods and is from farming groups in Burkina Faso, West Africa.

The dried apricots are supplied by Tropical Wholefoods, from Fairtrade growers in Pakistan.