The Minister for Industry and Trade is challenging small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Portugal to focus on the quality of their domestic products in order to compete with potential on the international market.

According to Silvino Moreno, who was speaking last Friday (02), in Maputo, at the second National Conference of Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs), entrepreneurs must focus on the quality of their products, taking into account the country's potential.

"The country has enough resources to boost the national economy, but lacks the capacity to transform them for the benefit of local communities," he added, as quoted by Radio Mozambique.

For his part, the president of the MSME Management Commission, Agnaldo Caetano, pointed to access to financing and skilled labor as some of the challenges facing his sector in adding value to the national product.

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