Famine and hunger are coming!!!! A farmer blurted out in 2011 to another after a full harvest, who responded with shock and preventive suggestions. Now fast forward nine years later and in 2020 this threat appears real worldwide. The concerns include the current global health pandemic, neo-colonialism, decline in farmers and toxic rustlers. Today more than ever additional farmers are needed to increase food production. All countries need to get more adults and the young interested in the tangible economy, in farming, storage, distribution, commodities trade and to protect farming activities from rustlers etc. Food security is vital and presents vast opportunities. Therefore, moving forward after surviving the global pandemic, research and consider the possibilities of engaging in farming, storage, manufacturing, logistics or the mining industry.
“Study what will enable you to become a successful entrepreneur” (Dr E.D.Z Beeka)
“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness” (Thomas Jefferson)
Agriculture or farming remains the origin of real wealth and the primary source for food, medicine and the numerous manufactured finished products that people buy and use daily. Yet, fewer individuals are operating within this valuable sector. A general poll shows the young more interested in the tertiary economy e.g. music, sports or video games etc This depletion of farmer ‘entrepreneurship human assets’ and ‘human resources’ from the farms continues with the young rushing to cities to school for years only ending up seeking non-existent jobs. However, effective learning, knowledge utilisation and operating within the tangible business sectors of agriculture, mining and manufacturing are viable possibilities.
“If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation” (Amit Kalantri)
Farmers are the original entrepreneurs, producing their own food to eat or heal, selling or bartering what they can, and passing on farming knowledge to generations of their family. However, research shows farming knowledge is being lost because many don’t know where to start, don’t know any farmers to learn from, don’t find farming attractive, don’t find it glamorous like the popular sectors, are stuck importing what they can grow, process or manufacture, and don’t realise that farmers are society’s greatest assets because we all need food nutrition and crops which are processed into different end-products and medicine, because we cannot eat cars, clothes, paper, phones, laptops, computers, satellites, cash, technology or social media.
The universal law of wealth recognises the electrifying power in limitless nature, human desires and raw materials. Human and plant cells, similar to land, soil, and plants are important earth resources that renew themselves infinitely. Hence, agriculture is a timeless opportunity that would never disappear. For instance, soil farming remained inexhaustible throughout the stone, bronze and copper, iron and industrial ages, now persisting into the information, technology, and artificial intelligence age. Hydroponics is another farming technique, and commodity by-products are useful for renewable energy generation.
“Manufacture, don't just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive” (Aliko Dangote)
Furthermore, manufacturing in the secondary economy is one large sector with vast opportunities as almost every single primary manufactured product including their waste are turned into reusable by-products and this value addition pays. Consider this, in 2014 the global sales for Chocolate was $100bn earned mostly by manufacturers, marketers and distributors, in contrast the core farmers/producers of the raw material Cocoa beans, such as, Cameroun, Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast who inclusively account for 70% of world Cocoa production failing to add value through processing were (remain) the least paid earning about a measly $8bn in Cocoa exports that year. Therefore, read and apply, carry out extensive personal research into the primary (e.g. agriculture and mining), secondary (e.g. manufacturing and logistics) and tertiary sectors (e.g. services plus tech) of the economy to position your wealth contribution. It does help to involve STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) but you don’t need a chemical engineering degree to become a manufacturer, remember that many of the greatest scientists and thinkers of the early ages were largely self-taught. Additionally, manufacturing entrepreneurs are leaders able to hire the best brains.
“I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations. I have built my factory on my own ground” (Madame C. J. Walker)
“Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be” (Louis O. Kelso)
Additionally, for a creative thinking out-of-the-box career prospect realise the business opportunities that will remain forever relevant throughout all ages are the wealth that comes from the soil/ground, via water, agriculture and mining.The mined raw materials extracted from the ground are processed (manufactured) in factories providing the goods used in modern society.
For instance, mobile phones, laptops, computers, gaming and electronic devices and so on, are made with plastics (from oil), cobalt, tantalum (from coltan i.e. columbite and tantalite), tin (from cassiterite), tungsten, gold, platinum, palladium, zinc, cadmium, lithium and other raw materials. Also, many electric cars depend on rubber and plastics (from petrochemicals), silicon, leather (from animal skin), copper, aluminium (from bauxite ore), boron steel, steel, titanium, magnesium, cobalt, iron phosphate, rare earth metals-neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium, zinc, graphite, rechargeable batteries, nickel, lithium ion, Li-ion polymer, lithium cobalt oxide, lithium sulphur etcetera.
This old Bloomberg commodity index shows the percentage of commodities traded by June 2017. With the world discussing the phasing out of fuel cars, and growth in the use of mobile phones and other gadgets, lithium is increasing in value. Thus, you don’t need a science degree to learn about metals. Research trade value chains, technological needs, about the miners, buyers, investors plus prices of the commodities on the stock, metals exchange, or spot markets. For example, as of October 2017 the spot price of Gold was $1, 278 per ounce, and $41, 081 per kilo, today by 22 June 2020 according to Money Metals the spot price of Gold was about $1, 766 per ounce and $56, 778 per kilo. Due to the pandemic other commodity prices are lower but in 2017 Cobalt on the London Metals Exchange (the world centre for industrial metals trading) was on offer for about $59, 500 per tonne. The prices of cash crops and food commodities are well prized, so study food value-chains extensively and apply. You may also enrol in the Dr Beeka Academy and "Learn to Earn" apply knowledge to match today's reality.
“Don’t happily be a spectator in your own economy” (Monica Musonda)
FARMING FOOD, CASH CROPS AND METAL COMMODITIES
“As in the rankest soil, the most beautiful flowers are grown” (James Allen)
Cash crops include agricultural products, such as, tea, coffee, sugar cane, cocoa, beans, oil palm, ground/peanuts, sesame, sweet potatoes, wheat, black-brown-white rice, yams, Shea butter, cotton, herbs, spices etcetera, that are grown to sell and earn a profit. Hence, crops are life’s essentials and those with family land or access to land, need to reconsider that farming is an esteemed activity for food security, feasible entrepreneurial career choice and business.
“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable” (George Washington Carver)
Farming can do be done on a micro, small scale or larger ambitious export or manufacturing scale. Many who are willing should choose/learn to grow their own food as George Washington Carver encouraged, process or sell excess crops as raw materials for other products and build a socioeconomic system. These are food for actionable thoughts, and a possible call for you to start investigating business opportunities beyond the tertiary economy, study the primary economy. For one, even though everyone eats, and no one needs a degree to learn how to farm, not everyone has the desire to farm, but many can learn to start from their garden. Farming is valuable, research indicates asides the wealth, farmers express the process that includes successfully planting seeds, nurturing, watering, weeding, harvesting, storing, selling, and repeating involves a form of purposeful joy definitely worth experiencing. Likewise, as an entrepreneur, building a business, becoming an investor or engaging in an entrepreneurial career is akin to planting seeds, dealing with obstacles and nurturing to grow successfully.
TIMELESS CAREER OPPORTUNITIES: AGRIC, MINING, & MANUFACTURING
“You are a diamond; they cannot break you”
Agriculture, mining and manufacturing opportunities are feasible career sectors. The year 2020 has exposed that alongside health, social justice, technology and security; Agriculture is the wisest pursuit for recovery against personal and world hunger/famine, and very important for food security, nutrition, real wealth and happiness. There is an estimated 7.6 billion people in the world, divided into a potential market size of about 1.2 billion people in Africa in 54 countries. About 738 million people in Europe in 51 countries. About 991 million people in America in 35 countries (23 North and 12 South), and about 24 million people in Australia. A market size of 4.4 billion people in Asia in 48 countries. Each continent, country, community has unique resources, threats, strengths, weaknesses and agriculture, manufacturing and mining career/business opportunities.
1. Buy seeds and grow flowers or food, at home, in a garden or any land, water and nurture its growth and harvest. Learn first-hand how seeds germinate and grow.
2. Learn more about tangible economy business sectors?
3. Think what’s a good idea for an agriculture business?
4. Study commodities by-products find a farm and learn the business.
5. Think, what’s a good idea for a manufacturing business? Study manufacturing by-products find a manufacturer and learn the business.
6. What’s a good idea for a mining business? Study mining by-products find a mining entrepreneur and learn the business.
7. List at least three things learnt after reading this article which is part of Chapter 6 of our book Wealth Empire State of Mind (WESM): Entrepreneurship is a Viable Career Choice
1. Wealth Empire State Of Mind: Entrepreneurship Is A Viable Career Choice: Everything You Need To Know About “How To” Start A Business, Get The Job You Want, Gain Wealth & Build A Legacy.
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