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SUKKUR INSTITUTE OF BUSINESSADMINISTRATION

SMES Survey of Sukkur DistrictExploring Rural SMES

Prepared for:

State Bank of PakistanBanking Services Corporation (Bank)

Development Finance Support Department

Head Office Karachi.

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Research Team:

Nisar Ahmed Siddiqui Pattern

Altaf Hussain Samo Principal Researcher

Abdul Khaliq Research Associate

Raja Shahzad Research Associate

Khalil Ahmed Research Associate

Kiran Azhar Research Associate

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Table of Contents

Introduction ..... 4

Executive Summary .......6

Survey Methodology ..........7

Survey teams, data collection, & analysis.........9

General Profile of SME........10

Manufacturing Sector.......13

Trading...20

Key issue in SME ......29

Conclusion................. 30

INTRODUCTION

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Small and medium enterprises have been at the heart of Pakistan's economy for almost 60

years According to independent research findings, in a total population of more than

160million in Pakistan, approximately 75 million are economically active. But the

proportion of independent business owners in the population of Pakistan is significantly

small at 3%. This is well below the developing countries average (6-10%).

In spite of the fact that Pakistan's economic base relies heavily on small and medium

enterprises, the government of Pakistan has been slow to recognize the many differences;

the focus Micro,Small and medium enterprises have been in the major cities But there is

limited information and understanding of the rural markets and economy has been one of

the key impediments in penetration in SME development in the rural economies.

The SME development in rural economies never considered as a mainstream and viable

business activity by policy makers and thus could attract no or limited attention of policy

makers.

State Bank of Pakistan and SBP-BSC has been taking different initiatives to research

studies in rural markets for understanding of the rural economy. The SME Survey of

Sukkur District in Sindh were initiated as pilot projects to explore the districts ruraleconomies and thus enable SBP and banks to devise market responsive initiatives and

products for increasing flow of financial services in the rural areas. This SME survey of

Sukkur district was conducted through IBA Sukkur.

The survey questionnaire was initially designed by the State Bank of Pakistan BankingServices Corporation (Bank) Development Finance Support Department. After pilottesting, certain modifications were made in the questionnaire, the final questionnaire

comprised 122 questions grouped in7 parts viz. general information about SME, ii)Manufacturing SME, iii) Trading Concerns, iv) Accounting & Record keeping v) BusinessDevelopment Services (BDS) vi) Access to Finance and vii) Key Issues/Challenges.

Responses of 300 SME owners 150 from trading concern and 150 from Manufacturing

concern, selected randomly from five Taluka of Sukkur district, were collected and

compiled. The survey provides a better understanding of the rural SMEs in Sukkur and

provides some useful insights about the Trading and manufacturing SMEs in the rural areas

of the district.

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2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

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The Purpose of conducting SME survey at Sukkur district was to explore the

dynamics of rural enterprises to facilitate and enhance the stake holders understanding

of the rural economy of Sukkur district.

In spite of the fact that Pakistan's economic base relies heavily on small and medium

enterprises, the government of Pakistan has been slow to recognize the many

differences; the focus Micro,Small and Medium enterprises have been in the major

cities But there is limited information and understanding of the rural markets and

economy has been one of the key impediments in penetration in SME development in

the rural economies.

The survey questionnaire comprised 122 questions grouped in7 parts viz. general

information about SME, ii) Manufacturing SMEs, iii) Trading Concerns, iv)

Accounting & Record keeping v) Business Development Services (BDS) vi) Access

to Finance and vii) Key Issues/Challenges

Responses of 300 SME owners 150 from trading concern and 150 from

Manufacturing concern, selected randomly from five talukas of Sukkur district, werecollected and compiled.

In district Sukkur84% of SME business is held by sole proprietorship form of

business, while the 11% of the total SME are formed by two or more individuals

jointly as partnership. Only 5% were corporation.

Data obtained from the survey shows that 88% of SME neither got formal training for

their businesses including that of Apprenticeship or training related educational

programs, whereas only 12% received technical and professional training.

Of large number of SME in the district, 68%, have self started their business, whereas

relatively small portion of SME inherited the business, 28%,from their elders ,family,

and antecedent whereas only 4% purchased the existing businesses and 0.34% joined

the existing business.

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About 75% of traders from sample have up to ten employees; 71%,of the SME in

Sukkur district have owned the premises of business rather than leased or rented,

while 29% owned their premises by having lease or rentals.

M ANUFACTURING

82% of Manufacturing SMEs businesses in district is held by sole proprietorship

form of business , while the 11% are private limited companies.

89% of SMEs manufacturers neither got formal training for their businesses

including that of Apprenticeship nor training related educational programs.

66% of the manufacturers get basic raw material and inputs from the same province.

Average raw material inventory maintained by manufacturers in the district is of Rs.

1542500.

36% of the manufacturers had no growth or negative growth in sale of their production, whereas 58% of the manufacturers have 25% growth in their sale, while 5% of

the manufacturers have 25% to 50% growth in their sale.

48% of the sample responded that they need financing for the expansion of their

business.

Only 22 (14%) out of 150 respondents had borrowed from banks. However only 27

respondents ever applied for the bank loan .

T RADING

84.7% of the traders from the sample are having proprietorship legal type of

business; about 15.3% are having partnership businesses.

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About 93% of traders from sample have less than ten employees.

61.3% owned their premises from sample of traders.

88.7% of traders from the sample had bank accounts, which served them as the

avenue for the exchange and security of their money, and the bank finance. Out of which

53% of respondent traders had bank accounts with their own names (proprietor), 37% had

SME bank accounts

about 47% availed for short term running finance and 5% of those availed for

export

2. SURVEY METHODOLOGY

The survey for SME was conducted in all 5 Tehsils of district Sukkur. Out of five Tehsils,

3 Tehsils have very large number of manufacturers and traders ,Tehsil Sukkur-1 is

comprising Sukkur city ,known as the hub of trade in interior Sindh , major trade takes

place here. Tehsil Sukkur II or Tehsil old Sukkur have famous industrial zone SITE hence

major manufacturing units exist there. Third Tehsil is comprising Rohri and adjacent ruralareas where number of cotton , brick laying, flour mill, raw oil and agri business units

exists and ancient Rohri market attract the population of Saleh Pat Tehsil and other

adjacent rural areaS for trading and shopping. The remaining 2 Tehsils arecomprising of

Tehsil PanoAqil and Tehsil Salh pat where there is low manufacturing and trading

activities observed specially in Tehsil SalehPat because its major part is desert area and less

densely populated.

S.No Tehsil

Union

Councils

No of Traders

selected for

survey from each

tehsil

No of

Manufacturers

selected for survey

from each tehsil

Tota

l

Percentage of

overall survey

1

SUKKUR

CITY 11 40 35 75 25.0%

2 SUKKUR 9 25 45 70 23.3%

3 ROHRI 10 40 45 85 28.3%

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4

PANO

AQIL 11 25 20 45 15.0%

5

SALEH

PAT 3 20 5 25 8.3%Total 44 150 150 300 100.0%

There are many market places in district Sukkur, Among the two Taluka of Sukkur there is

famous Agha Qadir Dad Agriculture market which consist of 162 traders with their own

trade association as well, Sukkur Hardware market with 27 traders , which is considered as

the biggest hardware market for the interior and Balochistan Province, Kiryana Bazar

Sukkur , the biggest trading market of spices and kiryana in this upper Sindh. This attractstraders from Balouchistan and lower Punjab as well.

Fresh and dry dates market, known as Khajoor mandi, which is considered as one of

Asias major date market from where around 37 exporters export dates to many countries .

Sukkur district also has Small Industries Trade estate where there are 119 manufacturing

units that operates. Cloth market of Sukkur is also attractive for many traders of other

districts of Sindh with 85 traders.

Since 2 Taulka of Sukkur are having maximum number of traders and manufacturer, 65

traders and 85 manufacturers were selected randomly. While from Rohri Taulka 40 traders

and 45 manufacturers were randomly selected. From PanoAqil 25 traders and 20

manufacturers were selected for the survey whereas from Taulka SalehPat 20 traders and 5

manufacturers were randomly selected.

3. SURVEY T EAMS , D ATA C OLLECTION , AND ANALYSIS

Survey was conducted by four MBA students, divided in to two teams of two in each. The

teams were provided comprehensive training for about three days on the study objectives,

survey methodology, and interviewing techniques by principal researcher and a team from

State Bank of Pakistan headed by Mr. Amjad Maqsood. A mock interview with one

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manufacturer and trader was also the part of the training sessions for estimating the average

time required to fill up the questionnaires and also to identify the confusing and irritating

questions. A well structured questionnaire was designed in consultation with sponsoring

agency and was pre-tested. The principal researcher supervised the whole project,

questionnaire design, sampling criteria and sample selection process and provided guidance

in all phases of the project. Mr. Ashraf Sheik from SBP Sukkur provided their support time

by time in data collection. Principal researcher worked full time with the survey teams,

motivated them, guided them and resolved their problems, particularly in field survey and

data entry phases. The SPSS software was used for data entry and analysis. SPSS provided

flexibility in managing the data by ensuring accuracy and quality of data collected/entered.

In analysis phase where necessary, outliers were excluded from the total number of

observations to arrive at conclusive percentages and averages of the variables. The results

of survey and data collected could be utilized for many research dimensions. The main

objective of this research project is to highlight basic dynamics of the SME sector in

Sukkur district. The data and results will be shared with other concerns for the sake of

knowledge sharing without revealing the identity of respondents.

4- GENERAL PROFILE OF SME

The result of survey reveals that 84% of SMEs

businesses in district are held by sole proprietorship,

while the 11% of the total SME are formed by two or

more individuals, jointly as partnership. Whereas, only

5% of SME surveyed are corporations with a very large

share of private limited companies.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

SME owners/managers educational background insurvey indicates about 33% and 27% having graduation

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and masters degree respectively. While 20% are those some having educational

qualification up to intermediate while only 13% are matriculate and 7% are having

education less then matric with 5% for middle and only 2% with primary level of

education, whereas only 1% having other kind of education including that of informal

education.

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

The majority of SME do not received any kind of formal training before entering in to

business. Data obtained from the survey shows that 88% neither get formal training for

their businesses including that of apprenticeship or training; whereas only 12% received

technical and professional training for their businesses with 2% B.Tech , B.E or associate

diploma in engineering, 4% apprenticeship training and 4% with certificate from technical

training center and the rest with other kind of Technical and professional training.

Out of 88% who did not go for any kind of formal training 58% went for informal training

specially training in typical USTAD SHGIRD setting and 30% did not get any kind of

training at all.

WORKING EXPERIENCE:

The SMEs owners/managers surveyed in Sukkur district there are only 0.3% doesnt have

any experience. 26% of respondents having working experience of about 6 to 10 years,

14% have about (16-20) years ,11%

have work experience of 26 to 30

years, whereas few about 2% of the

SME in the district have experience

of 40 to 50 years. The SME in the

district are well diversified

according to working experience

they poses, starting from experience of six months up to fifty years.

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ENTRY TYPE OF BUSINESS:

A large number of SME owners/managers in the

district, 68%, are self starters, whereas

relatively small portion of SME owners/managers

inherited the business, 28%, from their elders,

Family, and antecedents whereas only 4%

purchased the existing businesses and 0.34%

joined the existing business.

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT:

The data obtained from the survey shows

that 28% of SME started their business in

Sukkur District during the years 2002 to

2008, 25% established and started during

1972 to 1981, 22% SME established during

1992 to 2001, whereas 8% of the sampled

SME established their business before 1972.

THE EMPLOYEES STRUCTURE:

The most of the SME are operating their

business at micro or small level with

number of employees ten or less than ten

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in Sukkur district, as about 75% of traders from sample

have up to ten employees with 35% have 3-5 employees.

The SME businesses in Sukkur have 1-3 un-paid

employees as cumulative percentages shows that about 48% of businesses from sample

have 1-3 un-paid employees who either family member of being trained to take over the

responsibilities and majority of unpaired employees are observed in trading sector. As the

total number employees increases the number of un-paid employees decreases. The data

obtained from the survey further showed that about 83% SME have 1-10 paid employees.

KINDS OF PREMISES:

The survey shows that majority, 71% of the SME in Sukkur

district have owned the premises of business while 29% having

lease or rentals . According to the data collected in survey 95%

of SME operates their business as separate from their home,

whereas 5% operates from home .This type of operation in SME

was observed in handicraft, confectionery, candle manufacturing

and other home based industries in Sukkur.

5- MANUFACTURING SECTOR

SKILLED AND UNSKILLED WORKERS

Size of Enterprises by

employees Percent

Unskilled

Workers

Semi-Skilled

Workers

Skilled

Workers

(1-10) employees 55 49% 1% 50%

(11-50) employees 43 48% 4% 48%

(51-100)employees 2 50% 0% 50%

The data obtained from the survey shows that 55% of manufacturing SME are having 1-10

employees with 49% unskilled,50%skilled and only 1% have semi skilled employees and

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majority of manufacturer have assets of worth150,000 worth and 6% holding assets of

worth 2000,000.

43% of manufacturing SME in the district are having 11-50 employees with the

composition of 48% unskilled and skilled workers each and 4% worker in this category of

manufacturing SME have semi skilled workers.

2% of the manufacturing SME in the district is having 51-100 employees and out of this

2% no one manufacturer employ semi - skilled workers or those who need further training

to match the organizational need and half of their employees are skilled and 50% are

unskilled with the worth Rs. 5000000 of total assets excluding land and building.

The data further shows that 71% manufacturers sell finished goods both in the same and

other districts and prefer cash and credit against their sales .10% sell intermediary

products and supply raw material for other manufacturers ,19% sell both finished product

and intermediary products . 73% of the manufacturers accept only cash payments, 23%

accept only cheques and 4% accept both cash and cheque payments.

RAW MATERIAL

Basic Raw Material Source Percent

Same District 19

Same Province 66

Other province 8

Imported 1

Both Same and other 6

19% of the manufacturers purchase basic raw material and inputs from the same district,

while 66% from the same province. 8% of those who produce engineering and mechanical

products get raw material from other province, while 6% rely on both same and other

province for raw materials and only 1% of the manufacturers import the raw material from

abroad. Interestingly, it was noticed that those who import raw material from abroad,

directly or indirectly, sell mostly intermediate products to other districts.

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COST STRUCTURE:

Average cost of manufacturing observed in the survey shows that 49% of total

manufacturing cost is raw material while labor cost showed as the second major head of the

total cost at about 23%. Majority of manufacturers spent 14% of their total cost on utilities.

Water charges cost manufacturers 3% while administrative and operating expense cost 8%.

AVERAGE INVENTORY MAINTAINED

N Minimum Maximum Mean Std. DeviationAverage inventory

of raw material

maintained (in Rs)

136 0 15000000 1542500.00 2176468.002

Average inventory

of finished goods

maintained (in Rs)

132 0 10000000 1197310.61 1481442.124

Valid N (list wise) 132

Average raw material inventory maintained by manufacturers in the district is of Rs.

1542500, whereas few manufacturers keep raw material inventory up to 15 million, while

there are 10% manufacturers who do not maintain

raw material inventory at all. The average amount

of finished goods inventory maintained by the

manufacturers in the district is Rs. 1197310 with

maximum inventory level of Rs. 10,000,000

which is maintained by few manufacturers.

Cost Percent

Raw material 49%

labor charges 23%

Gas/electricity% 14%

Water% 3%

Financial Charges 2%

other Admin/operating Expenses 8%

Total 100%

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About 18 (12%) manufacturers who were surveyed dont maintain any finished goods

inventory.

Manufacturers in the district offer credit sale up to Rs.5,000,000 and average amount

receivable is Rs. 818561. 49% manufacturers allow 30 days credit period 24% sell on

credit for less then 7 days and more than one month, whereas 17% collect their receivable

in 15 days. Average amount of payable is Rs.742, 538 in which three of the manufacturers

borrow up to five million.

GROWTH DURING LAST THREE YEARS

About 36% of the manufacturers in the sample had no growth or negative growth in sale of

their production, whereas 58% of the

manufacturers have 25% growth in their sale

while 5% of the manufacturers have 25% to 50%

growth in their sale.

INVESTMENT IN PLANT AND

MACHINERY DURING LAST FIVE YEARS

Data obtained from the survey show that 62% manufacturer in the district made no

investment for acquisition of plant and machinery during last five years . 29% invested up

to 250000, 5% invested up to 500000 and experience growth up to 25% in sale. There are

only 3% manufacturers who invested up to one million for plant and machinery whereas

only one percent invested more than one million. The results show that majority of the

manufacturers were not sure about the growth and hence did not attempt to expand their

business by investing further. It is observed that 60% manufacturer in the district want to

invest in future in view of current business opportunities by getting finance from their

family member and business communities ; whereas 40% are uncertain about market and

reluctant to invest in future and want to sustain whatever worth they have currently . 13.5%

manufacturing SME in district have their own power generation arrangement to cope with

the loss of production due to electricity failure, whereas remaining 86.5% face severe

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problem due to electricity failure. The average time of production lost due to electricity

failure is up to 16.95 hours.

ACCOUNTING AND BOOK KEEPING

Almost all manufacturing firms kept accounting record formally or informally, accrual or

cash based, perpetual or periodic basis. Although majority (73%) of the manufacturing

firms did not maintain formal books of accounting and financial statements, yet they did

keep the account of cash receipts and payments.

In addition, three out of four firms kept the party-wise record of payables and receivables

and more than half (56%) of the firms made periodic assessment of their revenue and

income. However, 56% of the firms periodically maintained proper recording of the

withdrawals for their familys expenses from their firms.

FINANCIAL ASPECTS

The survey shows that (87%) of the manufacturing firms had the bank accounts, which

served them as the means for the exchange and security of the money and the bank finance.

As for as the mode of ownership/operation of the bank accounts ; 63%, 33% and 5% of the

accounts were operated under the name of the SMEs, the proprietors and jointly by

proprietors and their families respectively. Moreover, opening time of the account with

respect to time of start of the firm is that: 4% of the respondents already had the accounts,

16% opened at the time of the start, 34% opened within five years after start, 36% openedwithin 5-10 years.

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Half (48%) of the sample responded with the finance/loan need for the expansion of their

business, yet the rest half (52%) declined such need. Major chunk (82%) of the responded

never even applied for bank loan. However, 64 (42%) respondent even never borrowed

from any source, 50(34%) respondents borrowed from the business community, which was

found to be the major source of borrowing.

In Sukkur region, Marketing/selling activities of banks seems to be very inappropriate for

the SME manufacturing firms; since only one - fourth (27%) of respondents were

approached by the staff of the banks, leaving 73% of SME manufacturing firms untouched.

Consequently, lack of awareness about bank loans was the second major (50%) reason of

not applying for the loan. In this region there is need to improve their marketing efforts to

finance the untapped market. In addition, bankers must facilitate the prospective borrowers

in the documentation process by reducing the credit approval time, lengthy procedures and

extensive requirements; since 64% of the respondents (who had not applied for bank loannumbering 123) mentioned these hurdles for not approaching the bank. Nevertheless, 61%

of the sample had information about the bank loans, which was provided by business

colleagues (48%), marketing staff of banks (27%), and friends and family (21%). Business

colleagues, then, came up as the major source of information for bank loan products; this

supports the argument that there is the significant network of information exchange within

the business community- manufacturing sector Sukkur. So, the banks can mobilize this

network to promote their loan products.

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Out of 27 respondents who applied for the bank loan; 22 (81%)

got the loan approved and the rest 5 (19%) were unsuccessful

mainly due to lack of adequate collateral. Besides that; out of

22 borrowers, 19(86%) borrowers borrowed from commercial

bank and the rest 3(14%) and SME banks respectively. About

16(70%), 5(22%) and the rest 1(4%) borrowers availed short term finance, long-term fixed

finance and personal finance respectively. Majority of borrowers had not used any

reference or undue consideration respectively to get the loan approved. The banks took

averagely one month to approve the loan with maximum and minimum of 151 and 6 days

respectively.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES (BDS)

In sukkur region, majority (90%) of

Owners/Managing Directors of

manufacuring firms had never attended

any BDS.

82%, 53%, 50%, 44% and 41% of them

mentioned lack of awareness of such

institutes/programs, lack of time to

attend such programs,lack of faith in

utility of such programs,absence of suchinstitute in their surrounding and high

cost respectively for not attending BDPs. However, 60% of them were willing to attend

BDPs if offered free. Unfortunately, only one third of the firms arranged the training

programs for their employees during last two years.

Type of loan availedShort Term Running

Finance 16Long Term Fixed

Investment 5

Personal loan 1

Export Financing 0

Reasons for not applying the bank loan No of ticks % R*1-Lack of awareness about financial

services being offered by banks/MFBs 61 50%2-Religious grounds- the Interest

based loan products 39 32%

3-High interest rates 41 33%4-Cumbersome and lengthy

procedures and extensive

documentation requirements of banks

in extending loans 79 64%

5-Other factors (Pl. specify) 1 1%*R means respondents who had not

ever applied for bank loan 123

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Educational qualificationothersmastersGraduateinter matricmiddleprimary

F r e q u e n c y

60

50

40

30

20

10

0

Educational qualification

6-TRADING

SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

LEGAL TYPE OF BUSINESS:

A large number of trading enterprises in Sukkur district have proprietorship type of

businesses, as 84.7% of the traders having proprietorship legal type of business, about

15.3% having partnership businesses.

partnershipproprietorship

Legal type of SME

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

Traders in Sukkur district have good educational background as survey indicates about

34% of traders with graduation while 21.3% of respondents have education up to

intermediate 14% with matriculation ; 7% have middle and only 2% with primary highest

educational qualification.

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Educational Qulification of tr ader s

Graduation

Intermediate

MatricMiddle

Primary

None

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:

The majority of traders had not received any formal or informal training before entering in

to business. The survey result shows that 24% of the total respondents received informal

training (Ustad-Shagrid) as trainer-trainee and only 9% received formal training. The

findings of survey emphasise on need of training and development programs in future in

Sukkur district for SME generally and traders specifically.

WORKING EXPERIENCE:

The traders are well - experienced in Sukkur district as 31% of respondents having working

experience of about (5-10) years experience, 28.6% have about (15-20) years experience

and 21.3% have about (0.5-5) years experience. The traders are well diversified according

to working experience they pose, starting from experience of six months up to fifty years.

ENTRY TYPE OF BUSINESS:

A large number of traders self started their , whereas relatively small portion of traders

inherited the business from their families as survey indicates that 67.3% of traders self

started their businesses, 29.3% inherited and only 3.3% purchased the existing businesses.

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AcquisitionInhertainceself starter

How did you enter into the business

ENTRY TYPE OF BUSINESS

Self Starter

Inheriters

Acquired/Puchased existingbusiness

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT:

The trading enterprises are well diversified according to number of years since existence as

survey indicates that 55% of enterprises were established up to 1990 and 45% of

enterprises were established after 1990.

THE EMPLOYEES STRUCTURE:

The most of the trading enterprises are operating their business at micro or small level inSukkur district with number of employees less than ten as about 93% of traders from

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sample have less than ten employees. Survey results indicates that a large number of

trading business have from three to five number of employees as 37% of traders from the

sample have (3-5) employees. The trading businesses in Sukkur have 1-3 un-paid

employees as cumulative percentages show that about 68% of businesses from sample have

1-3 un-paid employees. As the total number employees increases, the number of un-paid

employees decreases, which is quiet obvious. The results of paid employees are also

indicating almost the same cumulative percentages about 60% from the sample have 1-3

paid employees.

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES

1to 5

6 to 10

11to 15

16 and above

KIND OF PREMISES:

The survey shows that majority of traders in Sukkur district have owned the premises of business rather than

leased or rented as 61.3% owned their premises from sample of traders. The trading businesses are operated from

separate places not from home of proprietor as 96.7% of trading businesses from sample are operated from

separate places.

Employees Frequency Percentages

1 to 5 103 68.7%

6 to 10 36 24.0%

11 to 15 10 6.7%

16 to 20 1 0.7%

150 1

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owned/pagrion lease/rent

The kind of permises

ACCOUNTING AND RECORD KEEPING

The survey indicates about maintenance of

formal books of account and preparation of

financial statements that only 16% of traders

from the sample prepare formal statements. Of

them 80% of respondents started maintaining

formal books of accounts from last 10 years. As for as periodicity of preparation of financial statements, concern 58.3% of those, who maintain formal books of account

prepare financial statements on monthly, 29.2%

quarterly, 4.2% semi-annually and 12.5%

annually basis. Further analysis shows that

83.2% of those, who do not prepare formal

financial statements, maintain the

daybook/cashbook to record daily receipts. Thesurvey also indicates that 50% of the respondent

traders asses their profits on periodic basis and 61.3% make party wise record of accounts

payables and receivables. There may be several reasons behind low rate of traders

preparing formal financial investments such as operating at micro and small level, lack of

skills to prepare or no practice in past. From the sample only 21.3% have the personal

computers for business use and 39.3% of respondents want to attend free training on

maintaining the day book.

SME maintains formal books of account and

prepare financial statements

Frequency Percent

No 126 84%

yes 24 16%

Total 150 100

In case the SME doesn't have proper books of

accounts, does it maintain the

daybook/cashbook to record daily receipts and

payment

Frequency Percentage

No 21 16.8%

yes 104 83.2%

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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES (BDS)

The awareness of business development services in businesses at Sukkur region is not atsatisfactory level as only 18.7% of respondent traders are aware about BDS. Furthermore.

about 35% times respondents indicate lack of awareness about Program/workshop/seminar

etc on BDS as reason for not participating in BDS programs. Also about 20% times

respondents indicated absence of such institute in Sukkur, 19.5% times lack of time to

attend such programs, 16.4% times lack of faith in utility of such programs and about 9%

times cost of programs as reason of not participating in BDS programs. Although SMEDA

and other supporting NGOs launched some BDS programs at Sukkur region but need of time is to widen the scope of BDS activities at Sukkur.

Does the SME has awareness about BDS beingextended by institutions like SMEDA or other

public/private insti tution Frequency

No

yes

Total

ACCESS TO FINANCE

BANK ACCOUNTS

If he/she would like to attend such program

if arranged free of cost


Valid No 71 48.6%

yes 75 51.4%

Total 146

100

Missing 4

Total 150

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A large number 88.7% of traders from the sample have bank accounts, which served them

as an avenue for the exchange and security of the money and the bank finance. Out of

which 53% of respondent traders have bank accounts in their own names (proprietor), 37%

have bank accounts with SME name, 8% have both, and only 2% have joint accounts with

family. The results of survey indicates that 30.3% are maintaining the bank accounts from

6-10 years, about 20% from 1-5 years, about 20% from 11-15 years and 18% are

maintaining from 16-20 years. Although large number of traders from the sample had bank

accounts yet many of them had with proprietor name which create problem while making

policy for financial betterment of SMEs because of difficulty in determining the number of

SMEs in district. Further analysis indicates that many traders are

maintaining their bank accounts from less than 20 years, while

many trading enterprises in the sample exist for long time.

ACCESS TO BANK LOANS

Survey indicates that 72% of the respondent traders do not need loan to expand their

business, 62.7% of the respondents are aware about bank loan products. A large number of

respondents got information about bank loan products from business colleagues and from

friends & families as 46.3% and 23% respectively, only about 30% of respondents got

information from banks marketing staff and some respondents got information from

multiple sources.

Type of Loan

Availed

Percentage

Short Term

Running

Finance

47.1%

Long Term

Fixed

Investment

11.8%

Personal loan 11.8%

Export

Financing

29.4%

Total 100

Source of information

Percentages

Banks Staff 29.9%

Friends& Family 23.1%

Business Colleagues 46.3%26

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yesNo

Need loan to expand the business

yesNo

SME has awarness about bankl loan products

SME have Bank Account Percentage

No

yes

LOANS AVAILED

Only 14.2% from the sample of traders applied for bank loan. Of those about 81% got acceptance from banks and 19% from those applied for bank loan gotrejection from banks.

The main reasons indicated in survey behindrejection of applications were lack of adequate title

Reason for not

applying


Lack of

awareness

31 14.2%

Religious

grounds

70 32.1%

High interest

rates

48 22.0%

Cumbersome

and lengthy

procedures

54 24.8%

Other factors 15 6.9%

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to land/property, insufficient cash flows and absence of financial statements acceptable to banks. From the traders who availed of bank loan almost 90% got from the commercial banks.

The survey indicates following main reasons of not applying for the bank loan, religious

grounds (interest based loans) 32.1% times, cumbersome and lengthy procedures of

documentation 24.8% times, high interest rates 22% times and lack of awareness 14.2%

times.

Type of Loan

As explained that a few number of respondent availed bank loan, from those respondentswho availed of bank loan about 47% availed of short term running finance and 5% of those

availed export financing. The respondent traders at Sukkur region used the personal or

political references as indicated almost half of the respondents who availed of bank loan

used references to obtain loan. It needs several administrative efforts to resolve issue of

using references for obtaining the loan. Whereas, the percentage of using any undue

consideration (monetary/ in kind) to obtain the bank loan is 17.6%.

The further analysis shows that 36.4% and 27.3% of respondents, who availed bank of

loans took from 21 to 30 days and from 11 to 20 days in obtaining the loan from banks

with cumulative frequency of 63.7%. About 18% took more than 30 days and only 9.1%

got loan within ten days.

DAYS TAKEN IN OBTAINING LOAN

A large number of traders had not taken loan from any source as 57.5% of the respondents

not taken loan from any source. Further analysis indicates that about 70% of respondent

traders, who have outstanding loans got finance from friends and families and 30% got

from commercial banks. Above results emphasize on the need of intense and targeted

marketing program from banks in Sukkur region.

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Percentages

Friends&Family

CommercialBanks

Not taken

PREFERRED SOURCE OF FINANCE

Days Percent

1 to 10 9.1%

11 to 20 27.3%21 to 30 36.4%

31 to 40 9.1%

41 to 50 9.1%

51 to 60 9.1%

Total 100

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A large number of respondents from the sample about 83.9% prefer friends and families to

get finance for their businesses and only 11.4% prefer banks for financing. The reasons for

being behind preferred sources of financing were indicted by respondent traders such as

easy access and immediate availability 36% times, low or no documentation 26.8% times,

no collateral 20% times and low interest rates 13.2% times.

ACCOUNTING AND RECORD KEEPING

Formal books of accounts

Majority (78%) of SMEs responded that theydont maintain formal books of account;remaining only 22% of the sample keep theformal books of account such as Balance Sheet,Income Statement and other supporting ledgers.However, the survey supports that anticipation that Manufacturing SMEs have more tendencyto maintain the accounts than trading SMEs, since 28% of manufacturing SMEs maintain theaccounts as compared to 16% of trading SMEs.

Relationship between education of

entrepreneur and his tendency tomaintain the formal books of account is found to be roughlysignificant; since 30% and 39% of the entrepreneurs who maintainedthe accounts were educated up to

bachelor and masters levelrespectively, leaving around 30% tothe undergraduate levelentrepreneurs.

Periodicity of Financial Statementsabout 61% of the formal accounts are maintained monthly, 25% quarterly, 5% semi-annuallyand only 9% annually; irrespective of type of SMEs ;the result seems to be contrary to theexpectations that most SMES maintain account on yearly basis.

Maintain Formal Books of Accounts

Manufacturing TradingFreq Percent Freq PercentYes 42 28% 24 16%

No 108 72% 126 84%Total 150 100% 150 100%

Education Vs Maintain formal books of accountEducation No yes

Freq Percent Freq Percent Total primary 4 2% 1 2% 5middle 11 5% 3 5% 14matric 31 13% 8 12% 39inter 50 21% 8 12% 58Graduate 72 31% 26 39% 98masters 59 25% 20 30% 79others 7 3% 0 0% 7Total 234 100% 66 100% 300% of total 78% 22%

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Specialized Accountants

Owners prefer themselves tomaintain the formal books of accounts instead of relyingon the accountants, since64% of the accounts aremaintained by entrepreneurs,whereas 36% by specializedaccountants.As against that, informal

book (Day Book/ Paymentand Receipt Book) keepingis mostly delegated tomunchies, as 83% of informal accounts aremaintained by munchies,whereas rest 17% by ownersthemselves.

Accounting Training

Majority (86%) of the SMEs did not get anytraining assistance while maintaining formalaccounts. This implies that owners have alreadysufficient accounting skills or they had hired wellskilled accountants. Nonetheless, the fact remainsapparent that training firms such as SMEDA have

not properly approached these SMEs.

How the books of account are maintained (Specialized Accounts)Manufacturing Trading Total

Freq Percent Freq Percent Freq PercentDon'tmaintain 61 41% 103 69% 164 100% 55%Sub total 61 41% 103 69% 164 100% 55%Formal books by:Specializedaccountant 20 13% 4 3% 24 36% 8%

Proprietor himself 22 15% 20 13% 42 64% 14%Sub total 42 28% 24 16% 66 100% 22%

Informal books by : Munchi 42 28% 16 11% 58 83% 19%Proprietor himself 3 2% 6 4% 9 13% 3%Lawyer for taxation 2 1% 1 1% 3 4% 1%Sub total 47 31% 23 15% 70 100% 23%Total 150 100% 150 100% 300 300 100%

If formal books of accountmaintain ; any training receivedfrom SMEDA

Manufacturing TradingFreq Percent Freq Percent

Yes 26 17% 16 11% No 124 83% 134 89%Total 150 100% 150 100%

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Periodic Assessment of Income

About 52% of the SMEs which dont maintain formal books of accounts assess their income periodically. Although remaining gave the negative response to questions of assessment of their income, yet their responses might be manipulative due to their apprehension of incomedisclosure.

Party-wise Accounts Payable and Receivable

About 67% of the SMEs keep recordof account payables and receivables

party-wise. Manufacturing SMEsmore tend to keep the record thantrading SMEs, About 74% of

manufacturing SME keep the recordas compared to 61% of tradingSMEs. Nevertheless, one third of SMEs dont record party-wise account receivables and payables. This practice results intoimproper income assessment and conflicts between SMEs and their parties.

Periodic Withdrawals for Personal Use

About 62% of surveyed SMEs record the withdrawals from business income for their personalor family expenses.

Maintain Party wise RecordManufacturing Trading TotalFreq Percent Freq Percent Freq Percent

Yes 111 74% 91 61% 202 67% No 39 26% 59 39% 98 33%Total 150 100% 150 100% 300 100%

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Free Accounting trainingSurprisingly, majority (89%) of the SMEs,irrespective of trading or manufacturing,rejected the offer of free accounting training.This overwhelming rejection might be becauseof their underestimation of the benefits of suchtraining and apprehension of income disclosure.

Use Of personal Computer

Although half of the SMEs have personal computers, yet only 17% of such computers wereused for accounts keeping. Major use of these computers has been found to be not for business purpose.

Firm Has Personal computerYes No Total

Manufacturing 57% 43% 50%Trading 35% 65% 50%

PC Usage for book maintenance Manufacturing Trading Total

Freq Percent Freq Percent Freq PercentYes 15 17% 9 17% 24 17%

No 71 83% 43 83% 114 83%Total 86 100% 52 100% 138 100%

Awareness about SMEDA Accounting Package

Majority ,69,SME in the district have no awareness about accounting package and softwaredeveloped by SMEDA .Whereas about 31% SMEs had information about such facility

provided by SMEDA free of cost . About 33% SMEs showed their willingness to acquire the

SMEDA accounting package/software and 67% were not interested for free accounting

Willing to attend free accounting training

Manufacturing Trading TotalFreq Percent Freq Percent Freq Percent

Yes 16 11% 17 11% 33 11% No 134 89% 133 89% 267 89%Total 150 100% 150 100% 300 100%

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software provided by SMEDA due to unawareness, even about SMEDA, and lack of belief onits contribution to their business operations and functions.

Section : Business Development Services

Awareness about BDSAbout 81% SMEs have no awareness about the Business Development Services (BDS) offered

by SMEDA or any other public / private organization mainly due to no awareness andinformation about role and activities of SMEDA in the district. Majority of those who donthave information about BDS are consisting of trading concerns with small scale business.Where as majority of the SMEs who said they had awareness about BDS offered by SMEDA

or any other public/private organization are manufacturing concerns. This showed that largemanufacturing businesses have awareness, information and links with SMEDA.

Acquired or willing to acquire software Manufacturing Trading TotalFreq Percent Freq Percent Freq Percent

Yes 81 54% 17 11% 98 33% No 69 46% 133 89% 202 67%Total 150 100% 150 100% 300 100%

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Awareness about BDS by SMEDA /Others Manufacturing Trading TotalFreq Percent Freq Percent Freq Percent

Yes 66 44% 28 19% 94 31% No 84 56% 122 81% 206 69%Total 150 100% 150 100% 300 100%

Attendance of BDS program

Only 9% of the SMEs have attended business development programs. The reasons for not attending the program were found to be- cost (26%), not

availability of such institutions (23%), lack of faith in utility of such programs (22%), lack of time (20%), lack of awareness (9%).

Reasons for not attending BDS ProgramsThe data obtained from the survey shows that Lack of awareness, no faith on effectiveness inthe programs, lack of reputed institutions, lack of time with the owner/ member/partners aresome of the key reasons for the SMEs not attending BDS programs.

Reasons for not attending the BDS Program Yes NoFre

q

Perce

nt

Fre

q

Perce

ntLack of 21 32% 55 9%

Reasons for not attending the BDSProgram

Yes NoFreq Percent Freq Percent

Lack of Awareness 214 32% 55 9% No institution 119 18% 146 23%Lack of faith 117 18% 141 22%Lack of time 129 20% 131 20%Costly/Unaffordable 82 12% 168 26%

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Awareness 4

No institution11

9 18%14

6 23%

Lack of faith11

7 18%14

1 22%

Lack of time12

9 20%13

1 20%Costly/Unaffordable 82 12%

168 26%

Willingness to Attend Training Program

About 54% SMEs in the district were willing to have BDS programs arranged by SMEDA freeof cost .Whereas about 46% SMEs in the district were not interested for such BDS programsmainly due to lack of faith in the programs. Majority ,74% ,who were willing for BDS wassmall scale SMEs having 1-10 employees. This shows that firms with less number of employees are more willing to have access to business development programs.

Willing to attend such program free of cost

No Yes TotalNo. of employees

Freq

Percent

Freq

Percent Freq

Percent

1.-10 99 72%12

3 77% 222 74%11.-25 34 25% 33 21% 67 22%26.-50 4 3% 4 3% 8 3%51-100 1 1% 2 1% 3 1%

Total13

8 101%16

2 101% 300 100%

% of total46%

54%

100%

Training Program for WorkersAbout 73% SMEs had not arranged any training programs for their workers during the last 02Years, mainly due to lack of resources, and lack of awareness and understanding about thetraining as a tool to fill the gap between actual and expected performance of their workers toimprove their productivity. Majority of trading concern SMEs said they dont need training dueto nature of their business. No one SMEs said that they have sent their workers for off the jobtraining, whereas almost all SMEs in both manufacturing and trading concern use to have Onthe job training for their workers mainly consisting of traditional ustad shagird setting.

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Reasons for not conductingtraining Programs

Freq

Percent

No Need 47 16%Lack of awareness 18 6%

No enough resource 140 47%On the job training 18 6%Arranged trainingPrograms 77 26%

Total30

0 100%

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Access to Finance

Bank Accounts

The data obtained from the survey of 300 SMEs showed that 88% SMEs have bank accounts; majority, 55% had the accounts in their own name, proprietor, partner. And about33% had bank accounts in the names of their businesses.

When inquired about the reason, they said it is mainly because of no adequate title of businessand no proper registration and documentation. About 12% SMEs covered in the survey do nothave bank accounts at all. Almost all the SMEs not having the bank accounts are small unitshaving up to 10 employees.

HAVE BANK ACCOUNT WITH NO OFEMPLOYEES

Y es No

No. of employees Freq Percent Freq Percent Total1.-10 191 72% 33 92% 22411.-25 65 25% 3 8% 6826.-50 4 2% 0 0% 451-100 4 2% 0 0% 4

Total 264 100% 36 100% 300

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The majority of the bank account keeping SMEs are manufacturing ones which are relativelylarge in size ,operation ,resources, and capacity which require them to have bank accounts.It was also found through the survey that more manufacturing SMEs are using their bank

accounts and other bank services for their daily business transactions , consisting of sale/purchase of finished goods ,raw materials ,from different districts and cities .

IF YES SINCE WHEN BANK ACCOUNT1-5years

6-10years Over 10 years

No. of employees Freq Percent Freq Percent Freq Percent Total1.-10 71 70% 20 37% 58 53% 14911.-25 16 16% 22 41% 36 33% 7426.-50 9 9% 4 7% 6 6% 1951-100 5 5% 8 15% 9 8% 22

Total 101 100% 54 100% 109 100% 264Percentageof total 38% 20% 41%

Further 38% of the SMEs have opened accounts during last 05 years, 20% have the bank accounts since 6-10 years and 41% got their bank accounts opened for more than 10 years.Many of small scale SMEs opened the bank accounts during last 10 years.

Loans for Business Expansion

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About 39% SMEs in Sukkur District needed loan to expand their businesses whereasmajority,61% were not in need and they said that they dont need loan to further expand their

businesses. Which is due to lack of faith in banks and financial institutions and also due touncertainty in the business environments and lack of chances for adequate growth throughloan.

LOAN NEED TO EXANDBUSINESS


Freq

Percent Freq Percent Freq Percent

1.-10 73 40% 67 57% 140 47%11.-25 33 18% 29 25% 62 21%26.-50 55 30% 9 8% 64 21%51-100 22 12% 12 10% 34 11%

Total183 100% 117 100% 300 100%

% of total61% 39% 100%

It was further revealed from the data that the smaller firms, majority of trading SMEs, are morereluctant to access the bank loans than the larger firms.65% of the firms having 51-100 workers did not need loans for business expansion comparedto about 60% of the SMEs having 1-50 employees. The sample size of SMEs having more thanemployees was not found during the survey and the sample size of SMEs having 51-100workers was also very small having only 11% of the total SMEs covered in the survey. It wasfurther noticed that 57% of the SMEs with 1-10 employees were interested in bank loan to

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expand their businesses, while 57% of the same SMEs category were not interested in bank loan to grow their businesses.

Whether Approached by Banks for Extending Loan?

APPROACH ED BYBANKS FOR LOAN

No Yes Total

No. of employees Freq Percent FreqPercent Freq

Percent

1.-10 167 76% 36 46% 203 68%11.-25 46 21% 22 28% 68 23%26.-50 3 1% 9 11% 12 4%

51-100 5 2% 12 15% 17 6% Total 221 100% 79 100% 300 100%

% of total 74% 26%100%

Only 26% of the SMEs covered in the survey were approached by banks for extending loansand other financial services; 74% were not approached by banks.

Those SMEs who were approached by banks were visited up to 20 times .which shows theinterest on the part of the banks to provide loans and other financial service to SMEs. Further,although banks marketing staff had relatively greater focus on larger SMEs for introduction/promotion of their products yet still 76% of smaller firms having up to 10employees were also approached by banks marketing staff for introduction of their products

and services. It was further noticed that those SMEs who were approached by the bank and

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paid most visits were due to better repute of that SME and better past rating and record with banks.

Awareness about Bank loan Products

AWARENESS ABOUT BANK LOAN PRODUCTS


Freq


1.-10 78 70% 92 49% 170 57%11.-25 27 24% 48 25% 75 25%

26.-50 2 2% 27 14% 29 10%51-100 4 4% 22 12% 26 9%

Total111 100% 189 100% 300 100%

% of total37% 63% 100%

About 63% SMEs had awareness about bank loan products. Majority ,42%, SMEsgot such awareness through business colleagues ,27% through the banks marketingstaff, 21% through their friends and families.About 37% SMEs had not awareness about bank products nor were they approached by the

banks. This signifies the need for further improvement in banks sales and extensive marketingefforts for expanding their SME Portfolios, specially to trading SMEs.

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Whether Applied for Bank Loan?

EVER APPLIED FOR BANK LOAN


Freq


1.-10153 61% 24 47% 177 59%

11.-25 69 28% 19 37% 88 29%26.-50 22 9% 6 12% 28 9%51-100 5 2% 2 4% 7 2%

Total249 100% 51 100% 300 100%

% of total83% 17% 100%

The data obtained from the surveyed SMEs showed that Only 17% of the SMEs applied for bank loans, whereas the remaining 83 % didnt apply for the bank loans.

About 61% of those having 1-10 employees never applied for loan . About47% of the firmshaving upto 10 employees applied for bank loans as compared to 37% firms having 11-25employees, 12% firms with 26-50 employees and 4% firms having up to 100 employees.

Reasons for Not Applying Loans

REASON FOR NOT APPLYINGBANK LOANReason Freq PercentLack of awareness 77 26%

Religious grounds 75 25%Cumbersome and lengthyprocedure 94 31%High interest rate 54 18%

Total 300 100%

About 31% of the SMEs who had never applied for bank loans were due to cumbersome andlengthy procedure of banks for giving loans specially documentation requirements are tootough and look as good for large SMEs.About 26% didnt apply for the loans due to lack of awareness about bank loan facilities and

other products.25% said interest based banking products as one of the reasons for not applyingfor loan. While 18% felt uncomfortable with banks interest rate as compared to other sources.

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Loan Acceptance Ratio

About 84% of the SMEs in the district didnt apply for loan and those who applied were able toobtain the loans which are shown above. 14% of those who got their loans accepted and only2% got their loans rejected on certain grounds.The banks loan acceptance ratio is 87.5% which shows that banks are conscious about loan toSMEs and more willing to cater for their financial needs.

IF YES, WHAT WAS THE FATE OF THE LOAN

Accepted Rejected Not applied In process Total

No. of employeesFreq

Percent Freq

Percent Freq

Percent Freq.

Percent Freq

1.-10 13 32% 4 57% 164 66% 2 100% 18311.-25 21 51% 2 29% 63 25% 0 0% 8626.-50 3 7% 1 14% 22 9% 0 0% 2651-100 4 10% 0 0% 1 0% 0 0% 5

Total 41 100% 7 100% 250 100% 2 100% 300

% of total14% 2% 83% 1%

The firm size wise analysis of loan acceptance and rejection ratio shows that 57% of the firmswhose loan applications were rejected were very small having upto 10 employees while 51% of the SMEs whose loans were accepted were having 11-25 workers. About 32% of the firmshaving up to 10 employees got their loan accepted. Medium sized firms having employees 1-25had greater tendency to apply for bank loans. Hence their loan acceptance ratio is higher too.

The period since 1st Loan Obtained

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Majority ,65%,of the SMEs in Sukkur district who obtained loan was during the last 10 yearswhich was due to expansion and growth of banking sector in the district. Specially during2002 to 2008.. About 14% SMEs of those which obtained bank loans had availed the loans bythe year 1998, whereas about 10% got their loans during 1978-1998.

Reasons for bank loan rejectionThe sample size of those who got their loans rejected was very small, about 2%, in thedistrict .The majority,43%, of the SMEs surveyed in the district Sukkur reported absence of financial statement as the main reason for their loan applications being rejected. Another 29%said they failed to show adequate collaterals required for the loan. Inadequate property titlesand insufficient cash flow was another reason given by 14% respondents for each.

REASON FOR LOANREJECTIONReason Freq PercentLack of collaterals 2 29%Inadequate property titles 1 14%Insufficient cash flows 1 14%Financial statements 3 43%

Types of bank Loans availed of

The data obtained from the survey showed that about 51% of respondant SMEs having accessto loans obtained loan for short term running finance to their business. About 24% obtained

availed of as personal loan and 22% availed as long term fixed investment. Whereas only oneof SMEs availed of a loan for export financing. The results further showed that most of the

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SMEs in the district availed of short term loans and long term loans. Whereas the proportion of other type of loans like for export financing was very low.

No. of days consumed in obtaining loan

The majority ,51%, SMEs took averagely 1-30 days for obtaining bank loans whereas about16% consumed 31-60 days in obtaining loan while 22% consumed two to three months ingetting their loans sanctioned. As discussed earlier, majority ,83%, SMEs in the district did notapply for the loans while 2% got their loan applications rejected . This low proportion of SMEswilling for loans is due to long waiting of more days in the process.

NO.OF DAYSCONSUMED INOBTAINING LOAN

Freq Percent

% age of 49 SMEwhich availedloan

Not applied 249 83% --Rejected 7 2% --1.-30 25 8% 51%31-60 8 3% 16%61-180 11 4% 22%

Total 300 100%

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Preferred Source of FinanceSource Freq PercentFamily and friends 138 46%

Banks 40 13%SME banks 4 1%Advance from suppliers 2 1%Advance from Buyers 1 0%Don't want to take loan 15 5%Friends & family andBanks 100 33%

Total 300 100%

Majority ,46%, of the SMEs in the district Sukkur prefer borrowing from the Friends &Families due to convenience in obtaining loan , easy availability with less requirements andlow or no interest rate . However 33% SMEs in the district responded that they would like to

barrow from friends and families as well as banks .About 13% said they would prefer to haveloan from banks as it can satisfy their requirements of large amount and for relatively longer

period as compared to friends and families.

7- KEY ISSUES IN SME

Key Issues Percent

Excessive Regulation 56%

Energy shortage 94%

High Energy Cost 87%

Water shortage 41%

Difficulties in marketing & selling 49%

Obsolete technology 42%

Rising competition particularly from Chinese Product 55%

Limited R&D and BDS support 48%

Lack of capital and financial resource 46%

Limited awareness about backward / forward integration 51%

Low skill mix of labor 43%

Low productivity of labor 35%

Limited focus of the government on vocation and technical

training 63%47

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Key Issues

1. Excessive Regulations

56% of SME owners (manufacturers and

traders) who were surveyed consider excessive

regulations as key hurdle in growth. The SMEs

owners complained about the attitude and

disturbance caused by government officials due

to excessive regulations. The complaints were

mainly about the attitude of income tax

department and pathetic attitude of government agencies created to support SMEs in

Pakistan .

2. Energy Shortages94% of the respondents consider electricity shortage as main issue; both traders and

manufacturing SMEs suffer losses due to long intermittent of electricity. Manufacturing

sector was highly vulnerable due frequent load shedding which resulted breakdowns in

their production due to this they had to layoff the employees which resulted in increase in

unemployment.

3. High Energy cost

At the time of survey the fuel and oil prices were rising rapidly. 87% SMEs considered

rise in the energy cost as the main issue. According to their opinion, increase in energy

prices forced them to increase the product prices which effected negatively on the sales of

SMEs.

4. Difficulties in Marketing and Selling the Products

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48% SME owners found difficulties in marketing and selling their products. This is due to

limited knowledge of the SMEs owner about the marketing activities & the marketing

strategy developed by non professional people. Mostly SMEs were reluctant from higher

professional people for marketing activities.

5. Rising Competition from Chinese Products

55% consider rising competition due to inflow of Chinese products. They consider

competition from the invasion of Chinese product in to Pakistani market as danger for their

survival due to cheap prices of Chinese products.

6. Limited R & D and BDS support:48% SMEs consider limited R&D and BDS as key issues . This support is not very

promising because of limited infrastructure and lack of support from government agencies.

Although government has created such institutions like SMEDA, but a lot of SMEs owners

were either unaware of such facilities or they were unsatisfied from their support and

services.

7. Lack of Technical and Professional Training Institutions

42% consider obsolete technology as key hurdle while 51% of SME owners have limited or

no awareness about forward and backward integration. 43% of respondents consider low

skill mix of labor as key issues. On the other hand, 63% consider that this is because of

limited focus of the government on vocational and technical training.

8. Lack of Capital and Financial Resources46% of the SMEs owners surveyed consider the lack of capital and financial resources as a key

hurdle in the growth of their firms. This problem arose because majority of SMEs owner were

reluctant to borrow from the formal sources such as banks due to lengthy and cumbersome

procedures or they could not arrange collaterals .

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8- C ONCLUSION

The Purpose of this SME survey at Sukkur district was to explore the dynamics of rural

enterprises to facilitate and enhance the stake holders understanding of the rural economy

of Sukkur district. The main purpose behind this survey was also to enhance theunderstanding behind low credit absorption ratio in enterprises of the region and facilitate

banks to provide access to credit to the people of this area by enhancing the outreach. The

survey has provided deeper and better insight about the characteristics of rural economy.

The following key points summarize the key findings of the survey

MANUFACTURING

82% of Manufacturing SMEs businesses in district is held by sole proprietorship

form of business , while the 11% are private limited companies

89% of SMEs manufacturers neither got formal training for their businesses

including that of Apprenticeship nor training related to educational programs

67% receive informal training in traditional Ustad Shagird structure and/or trained by family elders

56% of manufacturing SMEs surveyed have employees between 1-10 while 42.57%

are those SMEs having employees between 11-50 and only 1.35% having (51-100).

66% of the manufacturers get basic raw materials and inputs from the same

province.

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Average raw materials inventory maintained by manufacturers in the district is of

Rs. 1542500

36% of the manufacturers had no growth or negative growth in sale of their

production, whereas 58% of the manufacturers have 25% growth in their sale while

5% of the manufacturers have 25% to 50% growth in their sale.

87% of the manufacturing firms had the bank accounts

48% of the sample responded that they need financing for the expansion of their

business

Only 22 (14%) out of 150 respondents had borrowed from banks. However, only 27

respondents ever applied for the bank loan

34% respondents borrowed from the business community, which was found to be

the major source of borrowing.

27% of respondents were approached by the staff of the banks for financial services.

TRADING

84.7% of the traders from the sample are having proprietorship legal type of

business; about 15.3% are having partnership businesses

34% having graduation, 21.3% of traders have masters degree respectively.

From the sample about 21.3% have intermediate; 14% have matriculation; 7%

have middle and only 2% have primary as highest educational qualifications.

The survey result shows that 24% of the total respondents received informal

training (Ustad-Shagrid) as trainer-trainee and only 9% received formal training.

31% of respondents having working experience of about (5-10) years, 28.6%

have about (15-20) years and 21.3% have about (0.5-5) years.

67.3% of traders self started, 29.3% inherited and only 3.3% purchased the

existing businesses.

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About 93% of traders from sample have less than ten employees.

61.3% owned their premises from sample of traders.

Only 16% of traders from the sample prepare formal statements.

18.7% of respondents from the sample of traders were aware about BDS.

88.7% of traders from the sample had bank accounts, which served them as the

avenue for the exchange and security of the money, and the bank finance. Of

them 53% of respondent traders had bank account in their own names

(proprietor), 37% had SME bank accounts

About 47% availed of short term running finance and 5% of those availed export

About 18% consumed more than 30 days and only 9.1% got loan within ten

days.

70% of respondent traders, who have outstanding loans got finance from friends

and families and 30% got from commercial banks.

SME association in Sukkur

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Agriculture Market Trader Association 162

Sukkur Hardware 27Khajoor Mandi Traders & exporters Association 37SITE Association 119Cloth Market Traders Association 85Sukkur Chamber Of commerce ( member Class) 162Sukkur Chamber Of commerce ( Associate Class) 162

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