Smeda to hold seminars

SMEDA with its objective to provide business matchmaking services, will facilitate two one-day seminars on November 29 and December 2, to be held in Lahore and Karachi respectively on the French Equipment & Technologies for the Agro-Food Industry.
Main activities of the seminar include introduction of French companies, arrangement of one to one business meetings of stakeholders from both the countries facilitating JVs and investment opportunities.
SMEDA has been providing a platform to international agencies to interact with local counterparts by arranging events of mutual interests. Whilst for local SMEs by providing an opportunity of international networking and interaction available at their doorsteps without leaving their businesses and country.
Under one of such activities SMEDA is a working partner with French Association for the Development of International Exchange of Food and Agriculture Products and Technologies (ADEPTA). In the past SMEDA has facilitated ADEPTA delegations in networking with the local agri-businesses. In July 2005, ADEPTA hosted an International Agri-business conference in France, where SMEDA and other Government agencies from Pakistan also participated.
SMEDA is currently working with ADEPTA to organise two seminars and catalogue shows on the French Equipment & Technologies for the Agro-Food Industry.
A Delegation comprising of representatives from Dairy, Livestock, Seeds, Sugar and Agricultural Machinery sectors of ADEPTA will be visiting Pakistan.
These seminars will be followed by the field visits of French delegates in respective sectors in Punjab and Sindh. These field visits will give French companies in-depth and first hand knowledge about the practices of Pakistani agri-businesses.
Twenty French and around one hundred Pakistani companies of respective sectors are expected to attend each of the seminars and catalogue shows.
The Federal Minister for Industries, Production & Special Initiatives, Jahangir Khan Tareen and the Ambassador of France in Pakistan M Régis de Belenet would officially inaugurate the seminar in Lahore.
In Karachi, Federal Minister for Food Agriculture & livestock, Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan and the Counsel General of France in Karachi, Jean-Yves Berthault will officially inaugurate the seminar.