Ghana’s cashew processors are pushing for a single national cashew policy and a harvest target of 400,000 tonnes, as about 95% of the country’s raw nuts leave unprocessed. The proposals came out of a stakeholder roundtable in Accra on 14 September 2026. The Association of Cashew Processors Ghana (ACPG) and the Cashew Council Ghana (CCG) convened it with support from GIZ, the German development agency, and other partners. For processors, the stakes are supply. Ghana produces an estimated 260,000 tonnes of cashew a year, but about 95% of the raw nuts are exported, 3News reported. That leaves factories competing with exporters for the crop, while farmers say returns no longer justify their investment. ACPG President Caramelo Raposo said the government should back processors and farmers with capital and with laws that raise local production and processing. According to 3News, he also said the sector faces falling farmgate prices. Roundtable participants, including government institutions, farmers, exporters, financiers and researchers, proposed several ways to lift output from about 260,000 tonnes to 400,000 tonnes: rehabilitating old cashew farms, establishing new plantations, distributing improved planting material to farmers. They argued that a single policy framework would coordinate work on production, processing and profitability, which is currently spread across the value chain. The timing gave the push an audience. A day after the roundtable, Accra opened the African Cashew Alliance’s annual conference, held from 15 to 18 September 2026 at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel. It was Ghana’s second time hosting the event, after 2013. The alliance said the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the Tree Crops Development Authority were organising partners. The processors have set targets before. In September 2025, the ACPG announced a goal of processing 85,000 tonnes of cashew a year by 2026. It said then that its members faced irregular supply of raw nuts, high operating costs, costly financing and competition from raw-nut exports. The association is now building an advocacy campaign around local processing. On 24 September 2026, it trained 24 of its executives and marketing and media managers in public relations and advocacy. The European Union, German development cooperation and GIZ were among the backers.