Entrepreneurs ask LEA to extend incubation period

FRANCISTOWN: Budding entrepreneurs in Francistown have pleaded with the Local Enterprise Authority (LEA) to increase their incubation period to at least three years from the current two years.

The concerned entrepreneurs currently occupy the LEA business incubators situated at the Francistown light industrial area.

The entrepreneurs are accommodated at the incubators for a period of two years paying a subsidised rental fee. They are accommodated at subsidised rental to help them grow their business before going on their own. 

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