The Member of Parliament for Abetifi and former Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr.
Bryan Acheampong, has emphasised the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in making agriculture more appealing to Ghanaian youth.
Speaking at a public lecture on the theme "AI Disruptions and the Future of Work: Readiness of Our Youth," in Accra on Thursday June 26, he noted that leveraging AI tools, such as disease diagnostics and market prediction, can shift agriculture from subsistence to a modern, data-driven industry. "If adopted to scale, they can transform agriculture from a subsistence activity into a data-driven, youth-attractive economic engine," he said.
He highlighted the importance of digital skills in this transformation and commended the government's ongoing efforts to train one million coders, describing it as a timely initiative for Ghana's digital future. "The current government is pushing a one million coders programme.
