Ignacio Méndez, Deputy Minister of Industry, Commerce and Small Business (MICMM), said on a radio program that there are around 1.5 million small and medium-sized companies. Of these, 400,000 have fixed locations, while another 300,000 are mobile. He estimates there are 340,000 farm small business and 15,000 in fishing and mining, including the jewelry business.
Mendez is in charge of small business at the MICMM. He was interviewed on Channel 4, on the Ojala talk show by Ramon Tejeda and Guillermo Ricart. He highlighted efforts at the Ministry to back entrepreneurship in the country.
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El Dia
22 June 2017
