UNISAME ASKS PCSIR TO EXPLORE INDIGENOUS RESOURCES… BOL NEWS 28/01/23

PCSIR PROMISES TO SUPPORT SMEs TO MAKE SUBSTITUTES IN PAKISTAN

The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) realising the urgent need to manufacture substitutes of imported goods from indigenous material approached the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) for exploring our indigenous resources.
Unisame is pleased to announce that the council has agreed to support the Unisame wholeheartedly and offered to facilitate the entrepreneurs who wish to develope various items of dairy like cheese, paneer, milk powder, butter from peanuts, sweeteners and other dairy items.
The other items are substitutes for tea from lemon grass, edible oils, toffu, synthetic meat, reinforced and vitaminised water and beverages and even vitaminised rice and rice bran oil to save foreign exchange,
The other items are insecticides, pesticides, fumigation items and fertilizers. The Council is keen to do research in many items of paints , enamels , polishes, wall coatings and decorative finishes.
Besides the items Unisame and PCSIR have also planned to manufacture the machinery locally and those entrepreneurs desiring on turn key basis will be facilitated accordingly.
Thaver asked SMEs to take this adverse situation of the economy as a challenge and stand on our own feet and get rid of total dependency gradually by manufacturing items one by one.
President Unisame Zulfikar Thaver said that we have invited SMEs to come forward and take advantage of this opportunity and explore more and more items to substitute imports.
Thaver said we are also keen to ask PCSIR to take the initiative and suggest items in different foelds of packing materials, recycled items, light engineering, nylon, synthetics in clothing and shelter on war footings as there is desperate need because of dearth of foreign currency.
Thaver said we are thankful to the PCSIR team comprising of the consultants, team of scientist, researchers and marketing experts who have encouraged us and who have so willingly and whole heartedly agreed to support us.
Unisame has formed a task force comprising of Hussain Ratnani, Muslim Raza, Taha Amersy, Muzammil Chapal, Yousuf Yacoob and Zulfikar Thaver along with PCSIR scientist and food technologist.

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