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AGRI & IT SYNERGY IN UKRAINEOpportunity for Collaborative Growth within Ukraine’s Best Performing Sectors
Tom O’Callaghan
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Ukraine: Top -10 Global Producer1.Sunflower Seed2.Corn 3.Wheat4.Barley5.Soybean6.Honey 7.Rapeseed8.Oats9.Potatoes10.Eggs
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Ukraine Corn & Wheat
-Calorific Needs to
feed 100+
million people
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Ukraine: Technology Capability1. Ranks 4th globally for the number of IT
professionals
2. 1% of the world’s population 6% of the world’s mathematicians, physicists, and scientists.
3. Every Ukrainian IT specialist creates 3 – 4 jobs in other industries.
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Agriculture is Innovative10th Feb. 2016
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Agri-Tech is a Robust Proving Ground
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Farmers Love Technology 10th Feb. 2016
Price Tag - €585,000.645 Horsepower.
GPS control.#1 Fee Paying App DACH & Ireland
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Global IT Companies Love Agriculture
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• Keenan System – Family Owned – InTouch Solution• Improve FCE by 16%, reduce emissions by 20%.
Climate Corporation (2006)$38 million raised in initial investment partly through Google Ventures,
Sold in 2013 for $1.1 billion.
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Technology Empowers Rural Communities• 37% of the worlds workforce are farmers
• Average farmer age;• 58 years in USA. • 66 years in Japan. • 33% of European farmers are >65 years old.
• Ukraine: 475 villages depopulated between 1991 & 2013
• Kenya: ~$20 billion annual transactions via mobile phones.
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Global Challenge Feeding the world
GMOs 330m tonnes
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Corruption is not Uniquely a Ukrainian Issue
EU Horsemeat
Scandal 2013
Technology Transparenc
y
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Challenges = Innovation
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Challenging Times = Innovative Times
1941: Robert W. Woodruff: Every person in uniform should get a bottle of Coke for 5¢, wherever he is and whatever it costs the Company.
1800: Society for the Encouragement of French Industry to seek any invention or industrial process that would aid the French military. (Nicholas Appert)
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What is Ukraine Famous For?10th Feb. 2016
Galway – Medical Devices – 70,000 pop • Ireland #1 Global
Medical Device Exporter
Cork – Pharma – 200k population• Ireland #3 Global
Pharma Exporter.
Notice how German Automobile
companies brand in the German
language internationally!
“Breadbasket” of Europe.
4th Largest Global IT Talent Pool
Combine IT & Agriculture?