Hemant NitturkarProject Director, BASICS

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Vision for a New Africa:

Mechanization and Digital Agriculture

CAUTION – Don’t fall for hyperbole

Learning: Overnight successes took 20

years in the making

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

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

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!