Agri-business opportunities in cassava

1. Hemant Nitturkar
Project Director, BASICS
26thApril,2017
IITA,Ibadan
Vision for a New Africa:
Mechanization and Digital Agriculture

2. CAUTION – Don’t fall for hyperbole
Learning: Overnight successes took 20
years in the making

3. Mechanization
- No youth wants to endure
avoidable hardship
- Innovative tools design
business
- 50,000 grassroots innovations
in IIM, Ahmedabad, India
- Manufacturing
- Leasing
- Processing and value add
- Training
Learning: During the gold rush, the provider
of spades makes maximum profit

4. Digital Agriculture
- Green Revolution + Digital
Revolution for inclusive
and sustainable
development
- Days of eyeballs is over
- Providing information
which the user cannot
use is not a scalable
business
Learning: Look to be a solution provider. Do not
go looking for nails because you have a hammer

5. Invest in yourself - You are the brand
- Know your business inside out
- What you do well, you succeed in
- Not being the first-mover is not the end –
Facebook and Google were not the first social
network or search engine in the world
- Embrace competition – real story
- Give more – real story
GO, CHANGE YOURSELVES TO CHANGE THE
WORLD!