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Will Gen Z claim untapped farming goldmine?

I was once a village boy in Homa-Bay County, Kenya. Today, I'm a medical doctor, a development finance specialist, an educationist, and a farmer. This journey has given me a unique perspective on one of Africa's greatest paradoxes: we eat three times daily, sometimes even more depending on culture, yet our farmers who produce the food we eat, struggle to survive. Can you imagine how profitable the health sector would be if we fell sick three times a day and had to take pills or go to the hospital?

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