{"id":205456,"date":"2025-08-25T17:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-president-strikes-100m-agric-deal-meets-un-sec-gen-at-ticad-9\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:46:19","slug":"ghana-president-strikes-100m-agric-deal-meets-un-sec-gen-at-ticad-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-president-strikes-100m-agric-deal-meets-un-sec-gen-at-ticad-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: President Strikes $100m Agric Deal &#8230;Meets UN SEC.-Gen. At Ticad-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">President John Dramani Mahama has struck a deal with Japanese firm Degas, for a US$100 million investment over the next four years to help establish Ghana as Africa&#8217;s first AI-powered agricultural hub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The deal would expand a model that has already financed more than 86,000 smallholder farmers across 122,000 acres across Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">&#8220;Ghana has shown that when technology meets a clear national vision, smallholder farmers can thrive,&#8221; CEO and founder of Degas Limited, Doga Makiura said at a meeting with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508250388.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama has struck a deal with Japanese firm Degas, for a US$100 million investment over the next four years to help establish Ghana as Africa&#8217;s first AI-powered agricultural hub. The deal would expand a model that has already financed more than 86,000 smallholder farmers across 122,000 acres across Ghana. &#8220;Ghana has shown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[22499,258,256,11963,7012,4508,4509,6271,257,2450,52198,254,3292,52166],"class_list":["post-205456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-100m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agric","tag-deal","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-meets","tag-news","tag-president","tag-sec-gen","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strikes","tag-ticad9"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}