The National SME Fair 2021 came to a close on Sunday, bagging record amount of product sales and orders.
Products worth Tk 100 million were sold and orders amounting to Tk 170 million were received during the ninth edition of the eight-day fair that drew huge response.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the fair at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the capital on December 5.
The SME Foundation organised the fair to promote diversified products of small entrepreneurs and expand their market.
In the fair, a total of 325 stalls displayed various products from agriculture, agro-machinery, food-processing, jute, leather, light-engineering, ICT, plastic, handicrafts and jewellery sectors.
According to the SME Foundation, the previous 'SME Fair 2020' sold products worth Tk 49.4 million and received orders amounting to Tk 63.7 million while the SME Fair in 2019 sold products worth Tk 57 million and got orders amounting to Tk 95 million.
