Strawberry dreams take root

Agne (foreground) left behind studying law to grow strawberries, a shocking move in Senegal, where farming is considered work for the old, poor and uneducated. He owns one of the biggest strawberry farms in Bayakh, Senegal. — Carmen Abd Ali/The New York Times

WHEN Thierno Agne told his agriculture professor he planned to grow strawberries in Senegal, he was met with blunt advice: “You will fail.”

He didn’t listen.