Mutiat Kilasho was 12 when she began to show interest in her father’s rice farm.
After three years of apprenticeship with him, she began cultivating a local variety of the crop named after her community – Ofada, in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, south-west Nigeria.
In 2017, Mutiat secured five hectares of land in the area to start her rice farm. The yields were good in the first two years but then followed a downturn. She persevered with the consistent poor…
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