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20.12.24
The popular phrase, “When life throws lemons at you, make lemonade,” accurately captures Azeezat Olayinka Olatunji’s remarkable transition from an aspiring medical doctor to a successful full-time farmer.
Apart from owning a flourishing farm in her native Oyo State, she oversees a large agricultural enterprise, including a banana plantation of about nine acres, in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory.
Raised by parents and grandparents who were proud farmers, young Azeezat said she often protested anytime her father summoned her to follow him to the farm. Not only did she despise farming at the time, but she also could not see any compelling correlation between her dream career—medicine—and farming. Little did she know that the farming she once despised would eventually become her greatest passion.