加纳总统约翰·德拉马尼·马哈马与德加创始人兼首席执行官 Doga Makiura / President John Dramani Mahama with Degas founder and Chief Executive Officer, Doga Makiura

加纳总统约翰·德拉马尼·马哈马宣布加纳农业部门取得重大突破，透露德加（Degas）有限公司承诺投资 1 亿美元，通过尖端人工智能和技术改变农业。

马哈马在日本横滨会见了德加创始人兼首席执行官 Doga Makiura 时透露，这项投资将在未来四年内推出，旨在将加纳定位为领先的人工智能农业中心。

“这是对加纳综合、技术支持农业愿景的强烈信任票，我们已准备好实现”。

约翰·德拉马尼·马哈马总统

德加是一家开创性农业技术公司，涉足加纳已久。据该公司公布的数据，迄今为止已资助超过 86,000 小农户，在 122,000 英亩的土地上耕种，同时实现了令人令人震惊的 95% 的回款率。

德加表示，通过利用先进的监测系统和精准农业，帮助农民的收入翻了一番，并显著提高生产力。马哈马强调，这种伙伴关系将超越融资，建立一个可持续和有弹性的粮食系统。

“通过人工智能驱动的卫星监测和精准农业，我们将加强从投入到市场的价值链，改善粮食安全，并为我们的年轻人创造更多就业机会”。

约翰·德拉马尼·马哈马总统

德加通过结合高质量投入、农民培训和技术驱动的监测来提高小农的生产力而享有盛誉。

在其融资模式下，农民获得种子和肥料等投入，以及现代农业技术培训。通过部分收成来偿还，而农民则保留额外的农作物以出售以获得额外收入。

该公司向人工智能驱动的监控领域扩张是一项关键创新。德加旗下拥有数以万计的农民，面临着同时跟踪和支持大量农场的挑战。据该公司称，解决方案在于利用太空技术。

通过使用卫星图像，德加开发了可扩展且具有成本效益的远程监控农场的方法。这项创新由其内部机器学习研究人员和卫星数据工程师团队提供支持，他们创建了先进的地理空间人工智能模型来支持大规模农业发展。

该公司的旗舰创新之一是德家 100M 模型，这是一种基础人工智能工具，根据来自 Sentinel-2 星座的数百万张卫星图像进行训练。

在性能基准测试中，发现该模型在土地覆盖分类和分割等关键农业监测任务中优于 NASA 和 IBM 的 Prithvi AI 模型。德加认为，这些突破使该公司处于农业人工智能应用的前沿。

马哈马总统对加纳将从这些技术应用中获益匪浅表示乐观。他指出，将人工智能融入农业不仅可以提高生产力，还可以增强抵御气候变化的能力，提高资源利用效率，减少收获后损失。

近年来，粮食安全已成为加纳的紧迫问题，全球供应链中断和气候变化威胁着生产和负担能力。

在这种背景下，政府一直在寻求新的方法来提高生产力，同时实现农业实践的现代化。马哈马总统表示，德加的投资是符合加纳长期发展优先事项的及时干预。

他补充说，这项投资还将为加纳的年轻人在农业科技、机器学习和农业工程等领域创造机会，将就业从传统农业扩展到技术驱动的价值链。

总统最后向加纳人保证，他的政府致力于与发展伙伴、私营部门和德加等创新公司密切合作，以兑现农业转型的承诺。

凭借这一最新发展，加纳正站在成为人工智能农业领域大陆领导者的门槛上，将传统农业与尖端技术相结合，以实现粮食安全和经济增长的双重目标。

Mahama Secures $100m Investment to Make Ghana AI-Powered Agricultural Hub

President John Dramani Mahama has announced a significant breakthrough for Ghana’s agricultural sector, revealing a $100 million investment commitment by Degas Limited to transform farming through cutting-edge artificial intelligence and technology.

Writing from Yokohama, Japan, where he met with Degas founder and Chief Executive Officer, Doga Makiura, President Mahama disclosed that the investment will be rolled out over the next four years, aiming to position Ghana as a leading AI-powered agricultural hub.

“This is a strong vote of confidence in Ghana’s vision for integrated, technology-enabled agriculture—and we are ready to deliver”.

President John Dramani Mahama

Degas, a pioneering agricultural technology firm, has already established a strong footprint in Ghana. According to figures released by the company, it has financed more than 86,000 smallholder farmers cultivating across 122,000 acres, while achieving an impressive 95 percent repayment rate.  

By leveraging advanced monitoring systems and precision agriculture, Degas says it has helped double farmers’ incomes and significantly improved their productivity. President Mahama emphasized that the partnership will go beyond financing to build a sustainable and resilient food system. 

“With AI-driven satellite monitoring and precision agriculture, we will strengthen value chains from inputs to markets, improve food security, and create more jobs for our youth”.

President John Dramani Mahama

Under its financing model, farmers receive inputs such as seeds and fertilizers, as well as training in modern farming techniques. Repayments are made through portions of their harvests, while farmers retain additional crops to sell for extra income.

The company’s expansion into AI-driven monitoring has been a key innovation. With tens of thousands of farmers under its portfolio, Degas faced the challenge of tracking and supporting vast numbers of farms simultaneously. The solution, according to the company, lay in harnessing space technology.

By using satellite imagery, Degas has developed scalable and cost-effective methods of monitoring farms remotely. This innovation has been powered by its in-house team of machine learning researchers and satellite data engineers, who created advanced geospatial AI models to support agricultural development at scale.

One of the company’s flagship innovations is the Degas 100M model, a foundational AI tool trained on millions of satellite images from the Sentinel-2 constellation.

In performance benchmarking, the model was found to outperform NASA and IBM’s  Prithvi AI model in critical agricultural monitoring tasks such as land cover classification and segmentation. These breakthroughs, Degas argues, put the company at the forefront of AI applications for agriculture.

President Mahama expressed optimism that Ghana will reap substantial benefits from these technological applications. He noted that the integration of AI into agriculture will not only improve productivity but also enhance resilience against climate change, improve efficiency in resource use, and reduce post-harvest losses.

Food security has become a pressing concern for Ghana in recent years, with global supply chain disruptions and climate variability threatening both production and affordability. 

Against this backdrop, the government has been seeking new approaches to enhance productivity while modernizing farming practices. The Degas investment, according to President Mahama, is a timely intervention that aligns with Ghana’s long-term development priorities.

He added that the investment will also create opportunities for Ghana’s youth in fields such as agritech, machine learning, and agricultural engineering, expanding employment beyond traditional farming into technology-enabled value chains.

The President concluded by assuring Ghanaians that his government is committed to working closely with development partners, the private sector, and innovative firms like Degas to deliver on the promise of agricultural transformation. With this latest development, Ghana stands on the threshold of becoming a continental leader in AI-powered agriculture, combining traditional farming with cutting-edge technology to meet the twin goals of food security and economic growth.

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