1. I am a business representative and I believe that the involvement of migrant workers from rural areas in agricultural business is an important activity of the government and development organizations. Labor migration in the short term allows migrant to earn money to support their families, but does not solve the problem of employment and obtaining a permanent income in the long term. Many migrant workers from rural areas do not have the necessary information to make the right business decision, do not have sufficient knowledge to invest, create and manage a business. Government agencies, development organizations and business associations could be sources of providing the right information and knowledge for migrant workers.
2. The absolute advantage of the share subsidy program is the motivation of an entrepreneur to organize a business and invest his own finances in his business. Getting a subsidy is important both for a startup and for the existing business to offer new goods and services on the market. Among the disadvantages of such programs, I would attribute the incorrect concept of the subsidy offer and insufficient knowledge about the market, goods and services that such a program plans to subsidize. It is important to finance the development and supply of a new product or service to the market, including its promotion, in order to achieve sustainable demand for a new product or service. But at the same time avoid subsidizing business transactions for the sale of this product or service. By the way, this principle is fundamental in the approach of Business Development Services, and it is not new.
3. Lending to small businesses at low interest rates. At the same time, it is important to offer migrants a set of ready-made proposals for organizing small businesses (a kind of business plan) that would be coordinated with credit institutions. So, a certain ready-made business plan, for example, for the organization of a small farm for milk production (up to 20 heads) with the indication of companies supplying dairy breeds of cows, feed producers, veterinarians and other parties involved. A migrant invests some of his money, receives the rest as a loan for the organization of a farm according to a previously adapted business plan for him, according to which he begins to run his small business.
4. I do not know of similar programs that subsidize or support migrant businesses in my country or neighboring countries.
Eugene Ryazanov