Even before the government’s call for the creation of some six to 10 million jobs for Filipinos by 2010 to eradicate poverty, Aklanons, through their Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have already made headway in this direction by employing some 13,506 provincemates.
These Aklanons now work for Aklan’s manufacturing, trading and service industries, which, as of June this year total 140, based on the data supplied by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) here.
The manufacturing industry, composed of loomweaving, gifts and housewares, food processing, furniture and garden have the biggest number of workers at 12,353, followed by the service industry, 1,135 and trading, 18.
DTI gave this information during a series of Harmonization Workshops on Local SMED Plans spearheaded by DTI-Aklan, Provincial Small and Medium Enterprise Development Council of Aklan, Bureau of Small and Medium Enterprises Development and CIDA Pearl 2 wherein Aklan’s SME Situationer and Critical Issues and Concerns were presented.
DTI – Aklan Provincial Director Ermelinda Pollentes said Aklan was chosen as the pilot province for the SMED Harmonization Plan, workshop output of which was presented recently before Aklan’s provincial officials, DTI-6 and CIDA Pearl 2 officials and representatives.
Through Aklan’s strengthened SMEs, DTI aims to catapult Aklan as the country’s Piña and loomweaving capital, said Pollentes. (Panay News)
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