{"id":216196,"date":"2025-12-09T22:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-octogenarian-picks-2025-national-best-farmer-award\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:19:03","slug":"ghana-octogenarian-picks-2025-national-best-farmer-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-octogenarian-picks-2025-national-best-farmer-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Octogenarian Picks 2025 National Best Farmer Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>Ho, Volta Region<\/em> &#8211; The Volta Regional capital, Ho, on Friday hosted the 2025 <em>National Farmers&#8217; Day<\/em> celebration with pomp and pageantry, marking one of the most vibrant and well-attended editions in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"77\">Held under the theme <strong>&#8220;Feed Ghana, Eat Ghana, Secure the Future,&#8221;<\/strong> the event attracted thousands from across the agricultural value chain, including a significant number of young people. The ceremony featured rich cultural expressions, led by the Paramount Chief of the Asogli State, Togbe&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512090648.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>Ho, Volta Region &#8211; The Volta Regional capital, Ho, on Friday hosted the 2025 National Farmers&#8217; Day celebration with pomp and pageantry, marking one of the most vibrant and well-attended editions in recent years. Held under the theme &#8220;Feed Ghana, Eat Ghana, Secure the Future,&#8221; the event attracted thousands from across the agricultural value chain, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216197,"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":[258,256,5692,4759,4508,4509,6687,257,14467,5231,254],"class_list":["post-216196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-award","tag-farmer","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-octogenarian","tag-picks","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/216196","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=216196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}