THE FARM CEO (Issue 64): Africa Agribusiness Insights Survey 2016 (PDF), We need more agribusiness in Africa, Agribusiness in Sub-Saharan Africa (PDF)

This week”s issue of The farm CEO newspaper features 2 PDFs and one article about latest agribusiness research and development news in Africa.

1. Africa Agribusiness Insights Survey 2016 – PwC

All research indicates that agribusiness in sub-Saharan Africa has substantial potential to grow in the next few years.
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Key trends, challenges & future prospects/May 2016

AgTech – don’t wait for the future, create it

https://www.pwc.co.za/en/assets/pdf/agri-businesses-insights-survey-may-2016.pdf

2. We need more agribusiness in Africa | Africa Renewal Online

Africa’s economic performance over the last decade has been remarkable, having reached an average growth of 5%. If this growth is maintained, projections indicate Africa’s GDP should increase approximately threefold by 2030 and sevenfold by 2050, outstripping Asia’s. Yet this growth has not translated to creating jobs or tackling inequalities

http://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/special-edition-agriculture-2014/we-need-more-agribusiness-africa

3. Agribusiness in Sub-Saharan Africa – The MasterCard Foundation
www​.mastercardfdn.org/…/Agribusiness-i…
Over the last two decades, Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth …. (ODI) and the International Development Research Center …

http://www.mastercardfdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Agribusiness-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa-2014.pdf

[Download Free PDF]: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

Preview: WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.

No man can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and to develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with.

Click below to download this book from one of many sites that offer free download access to it.

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Free PDF: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

http://ebooksoneverything.com/wealth/scienceofgettingrich.pdf.
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TIP: The main thing to do is read the book at least 10 times cover to cover, OR until you’ve internalised and can recall blocks of text from it from memory.

Not everyone will be immediately ready to study, understand and adopt this book’s philosophy.

So don’t beat yourself up if you read and don’t get it at first (though I suspect he current economic hardships will make more people keen to apply themseles).

[FREE PDF DOWNLOAD] Screenshot PDF Userguide for Excel-VB Driven Monthly Poultry Farm Manager™ – Created by Tayo K. Solagbade

SDAc’s Excel-VB Driven Monthly Poultry Farm Manager™: Created by Tayo K. Solagbade

The Poultry Farm Manager app works with MS Excel 2007 & above. But it can be modified to work with lower Excel versions

This PDF guide is for the mini “Monthly” version of my Poultry Farm Manager app which has been built as a more pocket-friendly alternative to the original, more advanced version which is a bit pricey.

I’m keen to get smallholder farmers familiar with using smart applications like my Enterprise Information Systems (EIS), to handle their daily farm business data recording, and report generations.

NB: Tayo is the author of the popular Feed Formulation Handbook and developer of the Excel-VB Ration Formulator at www.iff.tayosolagbade.com/wp or www.thefarmceo.net

Below: Screenshots of the first 4 pages of the PDF userguide for the app. Click here to request a copy.

 

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Watch 16 Screenshot User guide Video Tutorials for this app here (click now)

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This Custom Automated Excel VB Entreprise Information System (EIS) was developed by Tayo Solagbade for SDA’s Creative Business Solutions arm (CB Studio) using MS Excel® & Visual Basic for Applications.

CB Studio help clients harness Technology & the Internet to do what they do with less effort, time and MONEY thereby increasing their profits.

Our Excel Visual Basic applications are FULLY customisable and applicable to a wide variety of uses – this package being just one of many examples.

What do you do with MS Excel that you wish you could do quicker and moreaccurately? Email/tell us via info@thefarmceo.net

This Scary Future Predicted for Your Car Is Closer to The Present Than You Know

If you like, you can bury your figurative head in the figurative sand, like a figurative (human) Ostrich – the future predicted below is ALREADY here – Tesla is just unveiling it on behalf of many others silently creating it. For those who love (or “worship”?) their cars and similar stuff, many are going to end up with “broken hearts”!
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“Around 2020, the complete industry will start to be disrupted. You don’t want to own a car anymore. You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination.

You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance and can be productive while driving. Our kids will never get a driver’s license and will never own a car. It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% fewer cars for that.

Read the full writeup!

https://www.futureme.org/letter/8469439-email-from-grandpa-about-future-predictions-in-july-2016

NEC’s indictment of SON, NAFDAC – Vanguard News

ON NOVEMBER 1, 20165:58 AMIN NEWSCOMMENTS

THE National Economic Council (NEC), chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, rose from its meeting last week and noted with dismay the high prevalence of poisoned food in Nigerian markets.

The Council, comprising governors of the 36 states of the Federation, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Ministers of Finance, Budget and National Planning, declared through its spokesman, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State inter alia:

To Remove Time-Wasters from Your Sales Leads You Need A Web Marketing System

One of the keys to achieving sustainable success in any area of endeavour is to carefully build a system that is both repeatable and reproducible.

If you cannot build one, find one that you can “buy into”.

Once you have that kind of system in place, WORK IT with diligence, intelligence and persistence, to reap the results it has been designed to generate.

I’ve done this using my custom Web Marketing System to get total strangers from within and outside Africa to contact and buy from me, for years.

When I first started out in business, making money from clients was all about doing as much pavement pounding as I could handle.

But not only was it stressful and cumbersome, most times it was also relatively inefficient, especially when I had to settle down and carry out client projects.

Most times the overheads I had to incur in terms of time, expense and money made a mockery of the income I earned, especially as it related to the profit margins I managed to retain.

I did not like it one bit. Leaving home to client project premises at 6a.m, sometimes earlier, and returning often close to midnight (due to late work hours with client, compounded by Lagos traffic) and sometimes well into the next day.

I will never forget the nights when I fell asleep intermittently behind the wheel as i drove back home from places like Surulere, through Maryland to get to my home in the Ojodu area.

Many times I would have to bang on the gate for someone to come open for me to drive in. Then I’d hurriedly eat my meal, go to bed, and still get up the next morning from 6 to 6.30a.m to go out again – until the project ended.

I’ve been selling my products and services without needing to do any of that for about 4 years now, since resolving – after some particularly painful experiences – that I no longer wished to subject myself to the multiple annoyances of working the way I used to.

You see, I discovered that the nature of the solutions I offered (custom software development, web marketing, information marketing etc) was better delivered via the online platform.

It took me time to come to that realization, but once I did, I knew exactly what I needed to do, to make it work – and I needed no one to tell me it would work.

So, despite the barrage of nay saying that came my way, I stuck to my guns and kept refining my approach until I got it right and began to reap returns in terms of prospects readily choosing to send me payment to get solutions I offered based on contact with my Web Marketing System (WMS).

Here are some examples of what I did to make it work for me:

1. I found a way to use my WMS to communicate the fact that I was trustworthy, so that prospects dropped any doubts about losing their money

2. I found a way to use my WMS to dramatically lower my routine sales and marketing costs, while boosting my marketing reach and impact to earn me massive name/brand recognition that moved prospects who discovered me online closer to buying

3. I found a way to use my WMS to screen out or eliminate time wasters from my sales leads i.e. people just curious but not serious about buying.

Simply put, I developed a combination of techniques and strategies built around a unique Web Marketing System, to help me get as many potential buyers as possible ready to confidently part with money to purchase my offerings.

The best part about this WMS is that I’ve tested it for so long that I’ve confirmed just how to make it work, such that I am rarely ever in doubt about what to do regarding a reluctant buyer.

So, if some prospect comes to me and demands, for example, that I meet face to face with him/her before s/he can agree to buy a solution I offer, I let him/her know that I require payment of a consulting fee to meet in that manner – noting that the amoutn paid will be 100% deductible if s/he goes on to hire me.

If s/he balks at that proposition, I often find that to be 90% confirmation that s/he is not a serious prospect. So I generally have no difficulty moving on.

That kind of “knowing” helps me to make the most effective and efficient use of my marketing time, effort, resources and money. It boosts my ability to achieve – and sustain – profitability.

I recommend you adopt a similar strategy – so you can reap the same, or better results.

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Today – Tuesday 1st November 2016 – I formally launch a new passive income generation initiative, with the first members of a team I’ll be building into the future.

Now, with this new residual income generation initiative, I’m keying in to a model established by a 3rd party business entity, which I’ve confirmed via 15 solid years of careful research, to be capable of delivering what its owners and advocates promise.

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