Textile Mipymes requested resources at lower cost

Lack of resources with competitive financing is one of the main obstacles of the small and medium enterprises in the textile sector, which must go to the informal market with the consequence of having to pay high interest rates.

These terms expressed the speaker and Permanent Advisor of the Dominican Association of small and medium enterprise textile (Apymetex), Eduardo Martinez, who considered vital that this sector receives direct attention and in a better position on the part of the entities with specialized portfolios.

"For us is very difficult to access loan programs of Banco Ademi or the National Council for the promotion and support to Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (Promipyme), because they require a series of requirements that we can not meet and that we are dealing with too much time and money that we can use in machinery." "Although more, us becomes easier the informal market", said Martinez.

u000acompetitiveness, he said, is very difficult to develop a sector without the necessary resources.

"There is much to do to be able to compete and give a good - battle-in what it refers to our products, it is difficult without the resources that a sector can be overcome", said Martinez.

Stressed that technology regards given much priority, because it helps to keep this area updated or on par with the market. He said that technology helps to improve the services of SMMEs and therefore offered all the possible attention.

According to data from the sector, in Dominican Republic there are about 375 textile companies and in each one of them may have 50 to 60 employees. In this case, noted, refers to a considerable amount of people dependent on this sector. He indicated that the structures are distributed in the National District, Santiago and the East, specifically to La Romana and u000aHigu¨ey.

Blackouts the energy crisis is one of the issues which have denounced this sector representatives on more than one occasion.

According to recent publications, most of the areas where they operate small workshops are affected by the crisis of the blackouts with electric outages of eight to ten hours each day in working hours.

"In companies almost always we spent all the working time without seeing the light", said. According to Martinez, recently came an improvement in electricity supply, with less frequent now blackouts, and that were scheduled, "but now the situation is on the fall again".

In his opinion, the situation of widespread blackouts is causing great harm to small workshops in manufacture of clothes, because most don't have emergency power plants for their operations.

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