KNUST ASSISTS SMALL SCALE ENTREPRENEURS

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The School of Business of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has started a five-year programme to train members of the Association of Small Scale Industries, ASSI, in the Ashanti region for free.

 The programme, which took off this year with about 60 of the intended beneficiaries, is part of the corporate social responsibility of the University. 

The first 60 beneficiaries who are being educated in English Language will complete their Course by the end of the first quarter of next year with the ultimate aim of building the capacity of these entrepreneurs to explore business opportunities to boost their operations. 

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of ASSI, Kwabena Buor made this known to the GBC in an interview at Konongo in the Asante Akyem Central Municipality. Ashanti region has more than two thousand small scale industries under the umbrella of the Association of Small Scale Industries. 

These entrepreneurs are engaged in various economic ventures such as snail rearing, mushroom, fish and vegetable production as well as palm oil, gari and rice processing.   

The Regional ASSI Chairman admitted that even though there are a number of business opportunities for small scale entrepreneurs to expand their operations, most of them have remained unattractive because of their lack or low level of formal education and technical know-how. 

Others too who are able to access loans from the Rural Enterprises Programme, REP, or the MMDAs have failed to repay thereby creating mistrust in all small scale operators. 

Mr. Buor advised small scale entrepreneurs to register their enterprises, products and services with the appropriate statutory agencies such as the Registrar General’s Department, Food and Drugs Authority and the Ghana Standards Authority to gain recognition so as to win contracts from the MMDAs.

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