It has been quite sometime I've posted something on the blog. My laziness, the mess I've subjected myself to, the vast number of scams (reading which I consume most of my online time), and the facebook are some of the reasons for it.
So, I was travelling from Pune to Sangli via a non-stop bus (glad to get it as soon as I reached bus stop) and I had a young farmer as my fellow passenger. After the initial hour, which I spend sleeping and smsing, we began talking. I don’t know why every conversation with an unknown Maharashtrian begins with the place one hails from and this was no exception. Even before we exchanged our names, we exchanged our hometowns and current location. After the initial discussions about the places around Karad and Sangli, the conversation went to farming.
Here, I was astonished with the knowledge level of the person. He explained me the different techniques of sowing sugarcane seeds which improved the yield levels of the sugarcane production per hectare, the two methods by which the fertilizers should be put on plants and the use of new concentrates which will yield more crop per hectare land. I knew about these things only superficially but thanks to this young individual, I think I have a better insight on this subject now.
The conversation then went to multi-level marketing and Amway when I saw a spark in his eye. He had been waiting for this opportunity and he started with the multi-level marketing concepts, the royalty concept and other things which Amway is known for. The passion with which he felt Amway will be a successful FMCG (which Is no doubt the fastest growing FMCG company currently) and the level of enthusiasm he shared was really contagious. I, personally, am not a big fan of multilevel marketing and Amway. I feel that the products are unnecessarily expensive and are dumped on to an individual to sell. When I explained him my reservations against this concept, he reluctantly agreed and told me that he spent only 2 hours of his leisure time for Amway daily and he invested a low level of capital in it. He showed me detailed calculations which showed a revenue of Rs. 5 lakhs per month + some 4% royalty in case he convinced 25 people to join Amway and told that it was always worth a risk to try out for such awesome levels of returns.
He then went about describing that agriculture will only take him to a particular level and to rise from mediocre to higher, he needed to do something additional and he found Amway as a best way to take him to that level.
Though I do not approve of Amyay, I was really impressed by his thought of doing something to rise from the ordinary to the extra-ordinary. Hope that others also think along the same lines and find out different ways to rise out of the ordinary. If only that happens, India will scale new heights.
However, reasonable levels of risk (not too high risks) should be taken. Else things could go wrong like in my case. :P
