The Small Business Development Finance (SBDF) trust is calling for government’s assistance to support the urgently needed creation of small-scale intermediate industries in rural areas across the country.
Chairman of the group Sattaur Gafoor told a gathering of small business persons yesterday at the body’s 9th Annual General Meeting at the Hotel Tower in the city, that the body is in need of government’s support as well as the private sector to carry out its mandate to assist small businesses, including those in rural areas.
He said the expansion of the agricultural sector means that there is higher production of materials, which would need to