Africa grows food into poverty

Middle of the 19th century around the USA Civil War rubber merchants in South America became Millionaires and built Villas and Opera Houses in the jungle. They used the momentum of fortune to harvest from innovative minds.

Africa produces fruits and vegetables to feed their people. For extra income, they grow food for export. They rejoice when they can get the "FairTrade" logo giving them extra income to cover the increasing cost of artificial fertilizer produced abroad in the developed world.

In nations like Ghana understanding that biologically grown cocoa beans harvest higher returns on the international market is not promoted among the cocoa farmers. That a cocoa tree exists when its beans are turned into chocolate one 100 gr chocolate bar goes for around $ 18. That vanilla is madly in love with cocoa trees is a hidden love affair in Africa a love no one must be ashamed of.

Strawberries come not only in traditional red but black, blue, green, yellow, lilac, pink, etc. easily a product of great financial returns. So lettuce in a variety of colors, a fruit that is a breed of apple and pear, or a red pineapple that fetches on the internal market up to $ 800-1300. Wasabi grown in African greenhouses find a great market in Asia at a great price. The list goes on and on.

Besides varieties of exotic fruits and vegetables, the basis of the products can be used to develop further varieties and get them patented to make good money. Plant patents are held mainly in the hands of foreigners while growing new plants is not rocket science but the work of a correct visionary brain.

Arab countries grow e.g. lettuce under the heart of their peninsular at a high cost compared to open fields for freshness and in a way to save the use of water and reduce the carbon footprint.

Africa could take the lead in agriculture not only to feed their people but to showcase the innovative minds of the continent. Love goes through the stomach so innovative foods from Africa will be felt in the stomachs around the world as a feeling of love.

Africa: what are you waiting for?