LAHORE: The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) has entered into an agreement with Agriculture Department of the government of Sindh for development of entrepreneurship in the Agriculture Sector.
The agreement was signed by Shakeel Sheikh, Additional Secretary, Secretary Agriculture Sindh and Javed Khattak, General Manager Outreach, SMEDA in presence of Sher Ayub Khan, Chief Executive Officer of SMEDA and Sajid Jamal Abro, Secretary Agriculture, Government of Sindh.
The agreement has set working lines both for SMEDA and the government of Sindh to run the project “Agri Preneurhsip”, which is targeted to train 500 Agri Graduates for gaining Business Skills, Soft skill and Agri Modules.
The Project will facilitate the beneficiaries through hand holding and mentoring services by the Legal & Business Development Experts.
The exposure visits and networking support would also be provided to the participants to start their own agri businesses in Sindh. Initially, the project would be executed in five districts and in the next phase, it would be extended to all districts of Sindh.
The agreement also includes a segment for Dairy Preneurship and TechPreneurship projects to be run in collaboration with the concerned departments of the Sindh Government.
CEO SMEDA, in his address, highlighted the role of SMEDA in development of trade and industry in the country. Secretary Agriculture informed that the rural areas of Sindh had a big problem of unemployment despite having a lot of the young educated persons, who have skill to work on machines to relate agriculture implements & Equipment repairing and manufacturing.
