The 10th National SME Fair-2022 will be held from November 24 to December 3 to promote SME enterprises and diversify their markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

350 stalls will be accessible at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in Dhaka for SMEs to demonstrate their products and collect orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

130 of the 325 participants are fashion-related. Participating industries include food and agro-processing, handicraft, leather, jute, ICT, light engineering, and plastics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In addition to the fair itself, there will be seminars on five topics for SME entrepreneurs: easy financing, women entrepreneurship, technology, ICT, and cluster development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SME Foundation has created the ‘National SME Entrepreneur Award 2022’ in male and female categories to recognize SME entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of the five categories will have six winners this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SME Foundation started the fair in 2012. Since then, 1,886 enterprises have sold Tk 32.88 crore and received Tk 53.50 crore in orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly a fourth of Bangladesh’s GDP comes from cottage, micro, and SME businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women run 7.21% of Bangladesh’s 10 million SMBs and 68 million cottage industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the 2013 Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics Economic Census, the country had 78.8 million businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of these, 87.52 percent are cottage industries, 1.33 percent are micro, 10.99 percent are small, 0.09 percent are medium, and 0.07 percent are large industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fair will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"