Tanzania Youth In Agri-business Forum (TYIAF) Launch Event May 11, 2013 Morogoro, Tanzania.

Tanzania Youth In Agri-business Forum (TYIAF)

Launch Event May 11, 2013Morogoro, Tanzania

MEBTIMagadu 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]

MEBTI - Magadu Entrepreneurship and Business Training Institute

Important aspects of agri-business including

the challenges and opportunities for the

youth.


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.


• 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


An increase in the # of agri-businesses will;

a)reduce rural-urban migrationb)create employment opportunitiesc)Integrate of the rural and urban youth d)encourage the formation of community-

based groupingse)Increase and expand the national

economy


Young Farmer Groups - The Ugandan examplea)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.


The challenges...• Access to land• Access to finance • Availability of inputs • Market access• Entrepreneurial mindset of farmers • Tanzania’s history of socialism


Change is oftentimes very difficult for the older

generation, and so the future of agriculture and

Tanzania is in the hands of the youth.


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…


The opportunities…(cont’d)• Primary production• Grain bank and storage facilities• Agro processing• Transportation• Green houses• Business support services• Bio-gas plants


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.






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.


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.


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.”


Closing considerations...the way forward (cont’d)

WHAT IS IN IT FOR ME?


THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR YOUR

KEEN ATTENTION.

Tanzania Youth In Agri-business Forum (TYIAF) Launch Event May 11, 2013 Morogoro, Tanzania.

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