Business News of Saturday, 21 February 2026Source: GNASpeakers at a cashew session of the maiden Ghana Tree Crops Investment Summit and Exhibition have called for reforms to promote local processing, improve financing and strengthen value addition. Sylvester Adinam Mensah, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Export-Import Bank, said tree crops offered a pathway to economic transformation beyond primary production. “Investing in tree crops is not only a narrow agricultural agenda, it is an economic transformation agenda,” he said. “Tree crops require patience. The speakers agreed that stronger policy consistency, investment coordination and stakeholder collaboration were critical to positioning Ghana as a competitive cashew processing hub within the green economy agenda.

Source: GhanaWeb February 21, 2026 13:43 UTC