PM Kvirikashvili: "Business opportunities for hard-working people has increased"
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"In the history of independent Georgia there have never been so many opportunities for hard-working people with a dream to launch or broaden their businesses.”
These words were spoken by Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili yesterday when he attended an exhibition of agricultural goods produced by people whose businesses were funded by the state through governmental projects.
Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili meets some of the beneficiaries of governmental programs. Photo by the PM's press office.
I want to stress that today in Georgia, people who aren’t lazy and have new initiatives can become a successful business owner; they can lead their own lives and they don’t have to ask the Government for a job,” said the PM.
Furthermore, they can go on to employ other people too,” he added.
Kvirikashvili said the Georgian people needed to open their minds to a "psychological transformation” and this would lead to a "revolution” where people used their initiative and worked hard for themselves, not just to improve their finances but to take responsibility to improve the state of the economy.
He added supporting hard-working entrepreneurs was the ultimate goal of all governmental programs implemented in the recent years.
Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili (L) meets some of the beneficiaries of governmental programs. Photo by the PM's press office.
The PM promised his team would continue funding business initiatives and help Georgian entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality.
Kvirikashvili highlighted in the current environment, when many new markets were opening up for Georgian products, the country needed to increase its exports and its production industry.
Some of the beneficiaries of Governmental governmental programs. Photo by the PM's press office.
In recent years different governmental programs funded the creation of 150 new enterprises and expansion of 700 already established businesses.
Furthermore 1,638 cooperatives were registered and 37,587 hectares of agricultural land was granted insurance.
The Government has launched a new initiative allowing farmers from all over Georgia to easily learn about the existing and new agricultural services offered by the state and how to better benefit from these agricultural programs.
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