week 3 feasibility road trip
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CHUA YONG SHENGGABRIEL YEE QI MINGGAO ZHI FANRADIAH RASOLTANG LEIQIN HAOWANG SHA
Stack Up Potatoes
FEASIBILITY ROAD TRIP TO MALAYSIA
APPROVING OUR PLAN
•Found a Sweet Potato farmer to look at our plan
•Concur that good soil is not needed
•Concur with 100 days period
•But… said that planting using tubers may not be most effective
APPROVING OUR PLAN
•Suggested using Sweet Potato Vines will take lesser time to grow
•Much, much lower attrition rate
•Sweet potatoes are easy to grow in tropical climates like Malaysia, Singapore or Batam
•Gave us healthy, live samples
GROWING PROCESS
After 1 month After 100 days
PROTOTYPE BUILDING PROCESS
PROTOTYPE BUILDING PROCESS
PROTOTYPE BUILDING PROCESS
PROTOTYPE BUILDING PROCESS
WHAT WE LEARNT
There’s no shortage of land space Hence, no need to plant between trees
Farmers become unwilling when they have to pay
Farmers will try out a batch, if we help them start up for free
Potato vines grow extremely easily
ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE
Easy to grow Easy to mass
produce Short harvest
time Low start-up
Capital
Low ROI
OUR LONG-TERM PLANS
Give them the first batch of sweet potatoes vines. And a new source of income, stable cash flow
Help them “upgrade” to higher value crops Like mangoes, pineapples or durian
Money from sale of sweet potatoes as a sustainable income Until the mango, durian or other fruit trees mature
BEST PROOF THAT IT WORKS?
Just 2 days after planting the vine!
New roots!