The Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Soe Win met the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) businesspersons, departmental officials and local ethnic people at the town hall of Pindaya Township in Danu Self-Administered Zone of Shan State (South) on 18 March.
During the meeting, the officials and attendees reported on MSMEs in operation and requirements respectively. Then, the Vice-Chairman of the SAC Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Soe Win coordinated measures on reports of
businesspersons and attended to the needs. The deputy ministers also explained about the relevant sectors.
Afterwards, the SAC Vice-Chairman Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) delivered a speech as follows:
- The most important fact of the MSMEs have to use domestic materials to produce value-added products. It needs techniques, capital, inputs and human resources.
- In the previous government, the government and private organizations had disbursed more than K6 billion to 2,822 persons in the Danu Self-Administered Zone depending on the regional condition.
- In the time of our government, with the permission of the Prime Minister, K5 billion from the State Economic Promotion Fund have been disbursed to the local entrepreneurs as capital loans.
- It is reported that the Danu Self-Administered Zone can cultivate sufficient rice but it needs to produce quality rice. Depending on quality, rice can fetch double or triple prices in local and foreign markets.
- As the zone can produce sufficient meat for it, the industry can contribute a lot to regional development if frozen meat can be produced.
- Pindaya is a famous place for the tourism industry of Myanmar and can attract domestic and foreign tourists.
- It is necessary to enhance the manufacturing of local products traditionally in order to promote the tourism industry which is referred to as smokeless factories and generates local and foreign revenues.
- As the Danu region is attractive to foreign tourists, it is necessary to register traditional products for systematic production.
- Not only the government but local people and relevant departments need to strive for the development of the Danu Self-Administered Zone.
Then, the SAC Vice-Chairman Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services and party viewed round the displays of local products, foodstuffs, consumer goods, industrial products, and traditional handcrafts. Later, the Vice-Senior General and party proceed to the Shwe Oo Min Natural Cave pagoda in Pindaya and paid obeisance to Buddha images in the cave, it is reported.
Source: MWD (19-3-2023)
- The most important fact of the MSMEs have to use domestic materials to produce value-added products.
- In the time of our government, with the permission of the Prime Minister, K5 billion from the State Economic Promotion Fund have been disbursed to the local entrepreneurs as capital loans.
- The Danu Self-Administered Zone can cultivate sufficient rice but it needs to produce quality rice.
- It is necessary to enhance the manufacturing of local products traditionally in order to promote the tourism industry which is referred to as smokeless factories and generates local and foreign revenues.