R2Kast 71 - Rejis Umuginreneza on Rwandan Agri Policy, his life saving business and more

“I want people to be farmers, not have to rely on farming!”Raj Regis is a Rwandan farmer who has progressed his career to chair of agriculture in Rwanda at THERTY THREE!He carried out his dissertation on the potential of sweet potato, a readily available crop in Rwanda that is somewhat looked down on by the public.Since then, alongside the CARL GROUP Ltd (of which he is the R in CARL) they have produced breads and biscuits from sweet potato to increase vitamin A in the diets of the masses. This is a vitamin that there is a blanket deficiency of in his country and to have a product with a high Beta-Carotene level without gene editing (similar to that of golden rice) is ground breaking.…on top of that they have developed a cheap method of storage that allows a product that used to have a shelf life of a few weeks in Rwanda to now be stored in excess of a year!A passionate man who as a child experienced one of the most documented and brutal atrocities in recent history with an excellent and progressive vision of creating a food secure Rwanda.What a pleasure this was to film! Thank you to Katie Burns for connecting us!

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