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Problems And Prospects Of Establishing Small Scale Enterprises In Nigeria
[A CASE STUDY OF SELECTED BAKERIES IN ENUGU URBAN]
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1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Bakery is in the production industry
the quality of products rendered by our Bakeries have been attracting
criticisms from people in all works of life. The civil servants,
business men and the general public are all very critical of production
of cookies like bread, chi-chin, cake, meat pie, boons etc. The
complaints ranges from those of poor quality of products, poor packages,
high prices, poor delivery, shortage of skilled manpower which affects
productivity and restrain expansive the use of potassium bromated which
National Agency for food and Drug Administration Commission (NAFDAC)
banned for health purpose.
Most bakeries do not put their customers
in the prime place as they supposed to be. There is now keen competition
and to compete means to contribute to economic growth and development.
Dickson (1971:4), agreed with this view when he said that small scale
enterprises are ploughed by inadequacies and serious miss-uses of
business records and business information. The problem of poor or wrong
location of an industry affects its production. Such as nearness to raw
materials, market, sources of power and access to supply of labour and
transport facilities etc.
Government incentive in industries has
previously directed to public investment neglecting private initiative.
But a diversified and self-sufficient economy must take into
consideration the importance of private sector in capital formation.
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
Based
on the fact that one cannot build a house on a platter of gold without
encountering one or two hassles here and there, so in the genesis and
revelation of this work as the researcher encountered several problems
the course of writing, which ranges from lack of time, financial and
material constraints to the inability of reaching all members of the
sample due to transport problems and even those reached tend not to
render full co-operation thus the total number of people interviewed
became smaller.
Other limitations which the researcher encountered
in the course of writing are that some of questionnaires distributed to
the respondents were not returned despite one or two reminders sent to
them, while those that were delivered by hand were non-challantly
filled. As such, there have been criticisms about the bakery industries
in the way they render services to their customers. i.e. They do not see
the customers as king lot in terms of national output and employment.
Moreover, Nigeria has various policies on small-scale enterprises in
recent National development plan and also in the structural Adjustment
programmed (SAP). The researcher wants to carry out a research on what
bakeries do and the role they play in economic growth and development
the researcher also wants to have an idea base either to support all the
sources about the poor impression people have on how to improve their
production so as to contribute effectively in national economic growth
and development.
Bakeries can do more individualized jobs for
customers and thereby attract them on the basis of specialty product
quality and personal services rather than on the impersonal of price or
mass production of largely identical business. Based on the above, the
need for studying this topic is to show the effectiveness of small-scale
business in national economic growth and development.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]It also paid attention to the foundling of the small-scale business in Nigeria. Whereas failure of the large-scale import department assembly to propel the country into a satisfactory course of industrialization necessitate the demagnification of strategy to embrace the promotion of small-scale enterprises achievement under the new strategy has not been adequate with expectations of the stated objectives which were economic growth and development through the mobilization of available local resou ... Continue reading---
