Transcript MEBTI - Magadu Entrepreneurship and Business Training Institute

Tanzania Youth In Agri-business
Forum (TYIAF)
Launch Event May 11, 2013
Morogoro, Tanzania
MEBTI
Magadu Entrepreneurship and
Business Training Institute
• Magadu Choza Village, P.O. Box 1229, Morogoro Town,
Morogoro, Tanzania, East Africa
• Phone # :- +255(0)653587409, +255(0)713508403
• email :- [email protected]
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Important aspects of
agri-business including
the challenges and
opportunities for the
youth.
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Introduction...
• Agriculture employs 70% of Africa’s
population, accounts for 35% of its GDP, and
40-50% of its exports
• Agriculture receives barely 2% of Africa’s
commercial bank lending.
• The market for African staple foods like maize,
milk, meat, banana, sorghum, rice and millet
is estimated at over $150 billion a year and
growing at between 3 – 8% annually.
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Africa has a long history as a primary producer
Agro-processing and value-adding biz models
The value chain analytical approach
It is better to focus on sections of a value
chain
• 300,000 more unemployed each year
• It is only the agricultural sector that has the
capacity to fully absorb this number of young
people
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An increase in the # of agri-businesses will;
a) reduce rural-urban migration
b) create employment opportunities
c) Integrate of the rural and urban youth
d) encourage the formation of communitybased groupings
e) Increase and expand the national
economy
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Young Farmer Groups - The Ugandan example
a) Tripartite range of services in local
communities which include financial services,
marketing services and agricultural outreach
services.
b) Keen focus on the introduction of new
technologies (copy and adapt)
c) The fastest growing section of the Ugandan
middle class is creating their wealth from
enterprises based in the agricultural sector.
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The challenges...
• Access to land
• Access to finance
• Availability of inputs
• Market access
• Entrepreneurial mindset of farmers
• Tanzania’s history of socialism
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Change is oftentimes very
difficult for the older
generation, and so the
future of agriculture and
Tanzania is in the hands of
the youth.
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The opportunities…
• Insanity:- continuing to do the same thing
and still expecting a different result.
• Wisdom:- understanding the difference
between what can and cannot be
changed, and then focusing your energy
on the former to bring about
improvements.
• The entrepreneur converts challenges into
opportunities…
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The opportunities…(cont’d)
• Primary production
• Grain bank and storage facilities
• Agro processing
• Transportation
• Green houses
• Business support services
• Bio-gas plants
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MEBTI initiative…
•The Institute started operations in late
2011
•During 2011 and 2012 we interacted
mainly with the four universities located
in the Morogoro Municipality, youth
farmer groups, and SACCOS members
and executives.
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MEBTI initiative…(cont’d)
• During 2013 MEBTI has delivered seminars on
entrepreneurship and self-employment to a
total of 19 secondary schools in the Morogoro
municipality, reaching over 4,000 students.
• MEBTI has proposed that a PPP be established
between the Morogoro Municipal Council
(MMC), willing private sector companies (thru
the TCCIA), and MEBTI to improve and expand
entrepreneurship and business skills among
secondary school students.
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Closing considerations…the way forward
• Non-agricultural business opportunities
• The success rate is higher for
partnerships
• Apply the “5 senses plus 2 approach”.
• Start small and keep moving forward,
growing a little more each day.
• Growth and compliance.
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Closing considerations...the way forward (cont’d)
• To the youth…“if you are standing alone
the bus of development will pass you, but
if you are standing in a group the bus will
stop and take you and your group on
board.”
• To the development facilitators…“if you
want to help the people in the
community, you need to live in the
community.”
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Closing considerations...the way forward (cont’d)
WHAT IS IN IT FOR ME?
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR
TIME AND FOR YOUR
KEEN ATTENTION.