IT TOOK 15 years working on his aunt’s farm, followed by several years studying agronomics at college, for Alloysius Attah to realize he did not, after all, want to be a farmer. Instead, when he was 20, Attah started learning how to code, hoping to swap agriculture for algorithms and develop a career in tech.
+ GROWTH POTENTIAL: Lexis Koufie Amartey, a communications strategist, shows workers at a vegetable farm near Accra how to use the Farm-line app that provides key information to rural farmers,
Growing up on his aunt’s 2-acre maize farm in the Volta region of Ghana, Attah had witnessed the challenges that small-scale farmers face. “Farmers don’t have access to information and services,” he says. “All the research and information that is published daily always ends up in reports that are filed away in the cities.”