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FNCCI delegation off to Thailand to scan OVOP |
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Monday, 07 September 2009 15:42 |
A professional delegation of Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) has jetted off to Thailand to fathom various key aspects of a program titled "One Village One Product Programme-OVOP”.
The 26-member delegation is led by Krishna Prasad Tamrakar, vice-president, FNCCI. Other members of the team belong to FNCCI and its district chapters.
The representatives of the apex body of Nepal’s privare sector will hold an intense interaction about a wide array of aspects pertaining to OVOP in Thailand, where the program has gained remarkable success, states a press reelase issued by FNCCI.
”The experiences gathered during the conduct of OVOP, product manufacturing area, product selection process, product diversification, working techniques and market expansion, inter alia, are the key issues the members are slated to get informed about,” adds the release.
This ”study and observation” mission has been launched at the initiation of district chapters of FNCCI.
The OVAP was first initiated in Japan way back in 1979. The program acheived desirable success with visible improvement in living standandard of local communities. Later, other countries like Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and China, among others, emulated the very idea which resulted in a gradual consolidation of their respective economies.
In Nepal, the private sector propelled the government to incorporate the program in its policy in fiscal year 2063/64. The private sector and the government made joint efforts to implement the program in various districts across the country.
The cardinal objective of OVOP is to utilise the local skills and resources optimally in order to explote potentials to produce globally competitve products and gradually alleviate poverty by way of raising income. nepalnews.com
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