Azerbaijan receives over 1,300 requests to start business in liberated lands

Chairman of the Management Board of the Small and Medium Business Development Agency (KOBIA) Orkhan Mammadov has said that 21 per cent of all entrepreneurs account for women entrepreneurs in Azerbaijan today.

He made the remarks in joint meeting of the Azerbaijani parliament committee for economic policy, industries and enterprising and the committee for family, women and children affairs, APA reports.

“This figure is growing every year,” he said.

He noted that there are various support packages, and these support packages are also offered to women entrepreneurs.

“Among the women entrepreneurs, there are those who have been actively involved in the Public Council from the first day of KOBIA’s activity. We have several projects envisaged specifically for the development of women's entrepreneurship,” the chairman said.

“We also highly appreciate the great activity of women entrepreneurs in the Karabakh and East Zangazur economic regions, which were created last year,” he noted.

Mammadov said that Azerbaijani women entrepreneurs began to pay great attention to creating a business in the liberated lands. To date, KOBIA has received 1,332 applications for opening jobs and starting a business in liberated lands. Some 70 of those applications were made by women entrepreneurs.

“We see that the interest is great, and it is commendable that our women entrepreneurs have already started their activity and are ready to contribute to the development of Karabakh,” he added.