The National Small Industries Corporation Limited
(NSIC), a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Micro, Small
& Medium Enterprises is setting up incubation centers in ten African
Countries including Gaborone, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Libya, Burkina
Faso, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Burundi, Mozambique. The funding of Incubation
project is done by MEA under the discussions held during the India
African forum summit held in 2008.
The NSIC model of incubation is a unique model of incubation for small
enterprise establishment where the budding entrepreneurs are trained for
establishment of small enterprises. The trainees are given hand on
experience on the project which they proposed to set up and the course
module includes basic skill development, facilitation on fund management
to banks, interaction on project suppliers for machine for technology
supply, marketing product packaging, costing and pricing, general
banking procedure, basic book keeping and accounting etc.
The projects identified to be set up in these ten countries are concrete
block manufacturing plant, tomato ketchup and fruit juice making plant,
paper corrugated box manufacturing plant, plant for making cookies,
blow-molding plant, wire nail manufacturing, soya milk extraction, socks
knitting, manufacturing of plastic bottle cap, water treatment plants,
noodle making machine, honey processing plant, manufacturing of plastic
shopping bags, jewelry making and finishing equipment, gem stone cutting
and polishing machines.
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