Entrepreneurs Trained on Miro-Project Management

It is a three day training Seminar took place at the Chamber of Agriculture in Bonanjo.
A three day training seminar for entrepreneurs of Small and Medium-size Companies who deal in agricultural products has kicked off in the chamber of Agriculture in Bonanjo Douala. The seminar is organised by the Regional Centre for Training and Initiative in Agriculture and New Technologies, known by its French acronym CRIFAT.
The Divisional Delegate of the Small and Medium-size Company, Joseph Rodolphe Bipoupouth said they noticed there was a lack of knowledge of entrepreneurs in managing their affairs and this lack of knowledge caused set backs in the growth of their enterprises. This he said is the reason why CRIFAT which is an NGO organised the seminar to enhance management activities of these companies.
He stated the objectives of the seminar which he said it is in line with government activity to facilitate management and individual assistance of craft men. He added that they want to facilitate their access to finance from micro finance institutions, “because when in partnership with government they can easily have access to micro finance.
The Delegate said because these entrepreneurs lack the capacity to manage projects the training seminar has a role to train them to increase their knowledge to manage.
He said they expect that by the end of the three days, the entrepreneurs must have been well trained in management, be able to calculate cost of production, fix good selling prices in the production market, and be able to manage loans. He said they will need modern equipment to improve quality of production.
The Coordinator of CRIFAT, Nkonga Puga, said the purpose of the seminar is to teach developers and bring them to the level of competition and also follow them to see them succeed in their projects.
Nkonga Puga said the entrepreneurs need modern tools in production but in order to have them, they have to fist of all be trained to manage projects and then meet micro-finance organisations to finance their projects, which will help them reduce risk in management. In this way he said they can easily acquire modern equipment when applied for. He said the seminar is limited to entrepreneurs and project promoters. The seminar ends on the Friday October 9.
EFFA TAMBENKONGHO