Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority (SMEDA) in collaboration with Pakistan Academy for Rural Development (PARD) organised a four-day training on business management and kitchen gardening. During the four-day training program, the participants were trained on the small business management, entrepreneurship development with reference to honey bee keeping, women entrepreneurship, tunnel farming, mashroom farming and kitchen gardening.
The purpose of the training session was imparting training on agriculture related businesses, particularly the growing of vegetables and other businesses. A total of 22 participants from FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa attended the training. In the concluding ceremony, Provincial Chief, SMEDA, Javed Iqbal Khattak was chief guest while Additional Director (Training) PARD, Nazneen was also present on the occasion.
Addressing the concluding ceremony, the chief guest expressed the hope that the training would remain beneficial for the participants and whatever they had earned will be utilised in practical life. He said that SMEDA is working with PARD since last two years and particularly focusing on the promotion of businesses to generate employment opportunities in rural areas.