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Rice, More Than Just a Meal | Aminu Kanko | TEDxMinna

Aminu is a rural rice farmer and a youth leader in his community of Kanko in Niger State Nigeria. He talks about life as a farmer and the potentials in the rice farming value chain. Aminu is a rural rice farmer with has over 20 years’ experience in rice farming if you include the trips he made to the farm with his parents, as a young boy. With rice farming, Being a computer science graduate who was seeking a government job which was not forthcoming he had to go back to his ancestral practice of farming and fishing. Farming at that time was seen as a poor man’s business and was not appealing, now he is a full-time rice producer, paddy aggregator, youth leader, a champion farmer and a motivator. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx