600 attend MSME training

MORE than 600 participants from the Medwagi area in North Ambenob local level government (LLG), Madang, who are engaged in micro agro-business activities, attended a week-long training to understand the Government’s policy of micro small-to-medium enterprises (MSME).
The MSME training in Madang was an initiative of local organisation Medwagi Agro Services, with the aim of helping MSME operators understand the current business environments and to align their behaviour with the current Government’s SME policies.
The training provided the rural people doing small agro-business to understand and plan accordingly to access the Government’s SME credit facilities.
The facilitators of the training were officers from the Madang DDA’s commerce office and two senior officers from the Ramu NiCo Management (MCC) Ltd’s community affairs department.
The two officers from MCC that assisted Medwagi Agro Services facilitate were Allan Wahwah, the supervisor with sustainable agriculture and gender office; and James Kias, a business development officer with the company.
Wahwah said MCC was ready to help the people venture into micro agro-businesses by providing business development advice, planning, management, marketing and awareness on issues with development partners on health, climate change and other challenges.