The chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Entrepreneurship And innovation Program ( NEIP), Hon Lawyer John Kumah, has urged beneficiaries of the presidential business support program to take the training seriously to build their business and impact their communities.
The greenhouse supply’s vegetables to ShopRite, farmers, market and several other market in the countries and also have been centerline’s greenhouse estate project with additional 100 Don’s spread across the country.
He mentioned that they are seeking to embark only the function of the greenhouse estate with the support of men’s bank of Ghana.
“We are seeking to put up 100 for every region of the country If this project become successful we will be able to bring in annual revenue of 150, million to the country as economy contribution to nation building”. He said
The business support program, has provided support and trained for over 45,000 nursing and founder 9,000 with the minimum of 2,000gh and the maximum of 1, 000 across the country.
He further indicate that, the NEIP has become an regular of the Entrepreneurship ecosystem in the country.
According to him the Ghana ecosystem is providing maintes and meritus services providing markets lot of consultus and businesses advise services and influences policy so that entrepreneurs can try.
He noted that the Ghana ham network has been start up for private sectors and also contribute to helping Entrepreneurship develop in the country.
Lawyer John Kumah, pointed out that, under the presidential business support program they have trained 45,783 start up businesses across the country in the parts three and half years in the first window 700 were train in the second window 12,000 and this year which was third window 100 per district and they have 260 in the country which comes 26,783 in the third window in the past three and half years they have been able to train 45,783 businesses and start up across the country.
He stressed that the area of start up business management financial and basic keeping skills, sells and marketing and Branding, business plan writing, organizational management cooperate governor formalization of businesses etc.
According to him, it isthe data of the presidential business support the satistics on the number of applicant they have train across the country based on regional basis. Greater Accra which usually has the bigger population they have trained about 10,158 which represent 22.19% and they have founder 2,705 businesses in Accra. Kumasi 27,779 representing 16.99% Northern Region 23,600 businesses representing 7.86% they have founder 7,35 businesses in the northern region, eastern region 400 has been trained representing 9.18% they have founder 8,58 businesses, central region 4000 has been tran founder 3,68 votal Region 2,200 found 4,049 business in the votal Region, Oti,north East upper west, upper east, Bono, Bono east,Oti Region 1,255 start up businesses and founder 256 add all will give 100% acroo the country 19,350 of them have received founding from 2000gh to 100,000gh across the country.
He was in a view that the achievement of the windows which he said, window One founder 1,350 of the businesses window Two founder 3,000 window Three 5,000 of the businesses.
According to him, over 10,000 student has been trained under the students Entrepreneurship. Also added that they have supported 1,000 women Entrepreneurship with disability across the country and also 1,000 men Entrepreneurship with disability with about 4 million.
By: Joseph Nana Yaw Cobbina