Farming has an unglamorous image
across Africa. But this might be changing - the BBC's Sophie Ikenye met
some young professionals who packed in their office jobs and moved back
to the family farm.
Six years ago Emmanuel Koranteng, 33, gave up his job as an accountant in the US and bought a one-way ticket to Ghana.
He now has a successful business growing pineapples in a village one-and-a-half hours away from the capital, Accra.
He says that even when he was far away from the farm, it was always in his thoughts.
Across the continent, Dimakatso Nono, 34, also left her job in finance to return to the family farm in South Africa.
'Always a market for quality'
She
left her lucrative job five years ago and moved from Johannesburg to
manage her father's 2,000 acre farm three hours away in Free State
Province.
She says she wanted to make an impact.
"I knew that if I came to assist my father, I would be able to actually make meaningful change."
She began by counting his cows.
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