Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling the Soil Meant Shame

His first year, he invested nearly $80,000 in planting maize — but without irrigation, a dry spell wiped out the crop. This year his farm is on track to break even for the first time, he said. After years of working to engage youth and women in farming, she became a farmer herself.

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