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ODIMM supports the return of home diaspora by providing business development grants
43 migrants or their relatives of grade I will access the state up to RON 250 thousand for initiating/developing a business in the Republic of Moldova. Today, companies’ managers have signed non-repayable financing contracts with the Organisation for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (ODSMEs). The total amount of grants is around Lei 11 millionand investment in the economy will be around Lei 30 million. Thus, according to the forecasts included in investment projects, those included in investment projects 43 companies commit 136 personsincluding 55 young people and 42 women. In January-six months of this year, 84 companies they were selected for funding.
Dumitru Ptea, acting Director ODIMM reaffirmed the institution’s commitment to support all entrepreneurial people to start-up or develop businesses, including diaspora workers.
‘Businesss supported by the IMMS reassure migrants at home, reorganise families and crack down new jobs. We are currently receiving applications for registration and national investment projects under the PARE 1+ 1 Economies Atragery Programme to attract diaspora to return to Moldova and invest in the domestic economy’, specified the Director.
Representatives of those 43 companies selected for funding are migrants working in 13 countries. Remittances from Italy, Romania, Germany and the United Kingdom hold the largest share.
81 percent the grant beneficiary companies operate in rural areas and are located in 20 races of the country. Of the total number of grant applications this year, 26 enterprises active in the field of agriculture: cultivation of cereals, increase in greenhouse vegetables, processing of vine plantings, fruits and zooshn plants.
Other 15 business services are being undertaken in the field of service delivery: transport services, motor vehicle maintenance and repair, health and social work, accommodation and leisure activities, and 2 enterprises are active in manufacturing, having as a type of activity the manufacture of cereals batoes and the production of carton pahars, etc.
Entrepreneurs who have been accepted today for non-repayable financial support include, and Octavian Movile of the Rhine rain. It has an agricultural business.
Although it is a new business on the market, SRL ‘Movio Solution’ aims for meals. The company tends to implement modern solutions in the field of agriculture, i.e. to provide digital services in the agricultural field.
“Non-repayable funding under the PARE 1+ 1 programme will help us purchase agricultural drones for the provision of scanning and pulvering of agricultural crops with plant protection substances throughout the country. This will result in the digitisation of the agricultural system, the considerable reduction of consumables, the identification and efficient resolution of difficulties encountered by farmers, the maximisation of the efficiency of the various crops”.stressed the beneficiary.
Antreprenosis Neagu Lorina in the Great Slobozia Sate, Cah race it has a business in the provision of recreational and tourism services. The company operates in s. Slobozia Mare on the territory of the Reserve “The Netherlands”. The services consist of organising the villages on horse and rusions, barbates on the Room and the channels of the Beleu lac, voyages with ATVs.
“With this grant we want to purchase 4 ATVs, these will be used to expand the range of services – travels with ATVs. We aim to promote and discover new places in the Republic of Moldova, in fact a different tourism – four wheels”Mentioned Neagu Lorina.
The programme to attract remittances to the economy “PARE 1+ 1” is implemented by the 2010 Organisation for the Development of Sector of Small and Medium Enterprises (ODIMM) and aims to mobilise the human and financial resources of Moldovan-based Moldovan Moldovan human and financial resources in the sustainable economic development of the Republic of Moldova. The programme operates under the “1+ 1” algorithm, so that each leu is covered by a leu in the form of a grant. The grant amount is up to RON 250000. Grant beneficiaries can be Moldovan nationals, working across borders and recipients of remittances, grade I relatives.