Sampomaa Boateng who owns 180 acres of land noted that this method ensures all-year farming because the overreliance on rainfall to grow crops is drastically reduced.
Six years ago she started her Okauni Farms.
A switch from a part-time engineering job to a full-time agribusiness has been fulfilling, she said while sharing her story as part of a Mastercard Foundation partnered Media General’s initiative to celebrate young women in Agriculture.
“With my farming, I do everything beautiful and nice, everything is sophisticated but I try to veer off what is supposed to be the norm. Because ideally, for most of the time the things that I wanted to do you will always be told that you can’t do that here because that there is a certain period that you can only grow some plants," she added.
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