The world is flat. In this era of globalization, countries are forging partnerships to remain competitive in terms of trade, revenue, inputs and security. The same is needed for sustaining agriculture also. We look at how such partnerships can be leveraged for promoting Indian agribusiness ventures to new horizons and domains through trade opportunities at Africa, EU etc.

1. Incubating International
Ventures in the Philippines
CHERYL MARIE U. NATIVIDAD
Chief Executive Officer
Optiserve Technologies, Inc.

2. Agri-entrepreneur
Product
To build better pathways for people to get connected in a borderless
world by minimizing the risks involved in agribusiness.

3. Access to a Borderless Network
Technology Production Inputs
AGRIBIZ INCUB
NETWORK
Finance (Technical
Market (Buy/Sell)
Cooperation)

4. DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM
 Promote innovation and
entrepreneurship by
harnessing skills and
improving competencies in
various farming systems
through a unified platform of
technology-enabled,
information-driven and people
centered
empowerment.

5.  Registered farmers approximately
110,000 occupying 100,000 hectares of
irrigated and non-irrigated lands
producing sugarcane, corn, coffee and
HVCC.
 Clusters of farmers adopting rice-based
or coconut-based farming systems.

6. Governance and
Market Accountability at the
Firm-level
Human
Farm
Resource/ Resource Credit and
Management Financing
OD
System
Technology

7.  Using a decision support
tool that allow
stakeholders to have
access to right
information at the right
time.
 Mainstream a process-
based information
network to ensure
transparency and
accountability throughout
the value chain.

8. 1. Developing the Agri-industrial
Development Area (AIDA) model for
Smallhold Agriculture in Philippines
 Draw up appropriate models (e.g. hub and nodes)
and platform for cooperation, collaboration and,
partnership among stakeholders.
 Identify key factors (e.g. information-driven
management, access to common service facilities
and support system, policies on fiscal and non-fiscal
incentives) needed for its implementation and
sustainability.

9. 2. Resourcing the Agenda through PPP
 Understand how MSMEs create revenues and their sustainability options,
how they currently fund themselves and access finance for immediate and
long-term operations through sharing successful business models, access to
networks, resources (human and financial) and knowledge of RD institutes.
3. Piloting the Agenda
 Develop SEEDS- AIDA and its service nodes and loop of agribusiness
MSMEs to access new markets and draft strategies by documenting
successful case studies about successful initiatives.
 Provide information-driven decision support system throughout the value
chain and; extend match-making services through e.g. corporate farming,
online platform and conducting two pilots to test the approach.

10.  Getting started right away and able to establish
business presence in “partner countries”
• Assistance in securing business permits and
licenses
• Linkage to RDIs and SCUs on R&D
• Business matching
 Act as intermediary/facilitate collaboration
amongst incubators and incubatees possibly
on a B2B and B2C mode.

11.  Cooperation – declaration of support
and mutual understanding.
 Collaboration – engagement in
area/subject- specific or project-based
undertakings.
 Partnership – medium (e.g. strategic
alliance) to long-term relationships
(mergers and acquisitions)