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 Smedi rues underutilisation of enterprise development centre

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Small and Medium Enterprises Development Institute (Smedi) says small businesses are not utilising its enterprise development centre in Phalombe District set up to promote production.

Smedi director of enterprises development services Lydia Ngondo Kadzongwe said this on Thursday during a visit to the Enterprise Development Centre.

She said the centre has a cassava processing machine, candle making machines, juice and tomato processing machines with the capacity to produce 100 litres of juice per day.

Said Kadzongwe: “Most small businesses do not know about this place that is why we want the nation to know about this place so that we can substitute the importation of other products.

 “The machines that we have for making juice can produce juice from any fruit found in Malawi.”

Alliance Bioversity and International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (Ciat) jointly implemented the business acceleration for the youth project.

Ciat business incubation and acceleration officer Oganive Chingakule said the project is empowering 500 youths and women to learn the technical aspects of the machinery to utilise it fully.

“The project is supporting youths and women by helping them on entrepreneurship aspect. We have engaged youths in several districts such as Chikwawa, Mulanje and Thyolo,” she said.

“We have incubated about 500 youths and we have awarded grants to 200 of them.”

A beneficiary, Wongani Ngoma, who received part of the seed capital, said he will use part of the money to buy equipment to boost his electronics business.

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