First ever boot camp is organised in the capital with an aim to promote
agricultural business where 25 business people participated to harness their
skills to uplift their enterprise.
Those participants, 5 start-ups and 20 businessmen, had participated in
the ‘AgriBusiness Boot Camp’ from April 21 to 27 where they were trained in the
supply chain, packaging, value production, customer segmentation, branding,
finance, and sales and distribution.
“The boot camp will help start-up companies to execute their projects
both financially and structurally. We believe that they will be able to help
the selected agricultural businesspeople towards a sustainable progress,” read
a press statement issued by Nepal Entrepreneur Hub (NE Hub), organiser of the
event.
The event was supported by the World Bank and Info Dev, and Business
Oxygen (bo2) was co-sponsor.
According to Bijendra Joshi of NE Hub, the participants will be able to
acquire require skills to boost their company through such boot camps. They
were taught by business experts on import, supply chain, value added tax,
market focused expansion, legal process, buying, distribution, investment and
partnership.
NE Hub had opened application for the boot camp from February 12 to
March 10.
“Altogether 641 had filled the forms including 383 start-ups and 258
businesses. Both groups went through a pre-judging process round where only 65
start-ups and 46 businesses were selected,” said the company.
Later on, on the basis of idea pitching, the number of participants was
brought down to 5 start-ups while 20 businesses were selected through ‘Speed
Dating’.
The selected businessmen run industries on products such as tea, coffee,
banana, pickles, spices, honey, food production and vessels made from coconut
plants.
(Published in The Rising Nepal Daily on 30th May, 2017)
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