Pakistan exports most gem stones in uncooked type because of an absence of lapidary consultants, who may add worth to each the dear and semi-precious stones for a profitable worth within the worldwide market.
“If the unskilled inhabitants within the mineral-rich components is supplied with lapidary raining, it is not going to solely assist create enterprise alternatives, but in addition add revenues to the kitty,” stated Mamoor Khan, the patron-in-chief of All Pakistan Business Exporters Affiliation (APCEA).
Speaking to WealthPK, he stated the cottage trade could possibly be developed within the mineral-based barren lands by offering coaching to rural communities. He famous that regardless of having nice deposits of treasured and semi-precious gem stones, Pakistan was incomes far lower than its potential.
Mamoor Khan stated APCEA was working with authorities establishments to arrange lapidary coaching centres.
He stated lapidary was the artwork of chopping and sharpening gem stones. He added that although sharpening of gem stones was performed by machines, centuries-old hand instruments had been nonetheless in use, notably in India, to take away flaws from gem stones and polish them.
Speaking to WealthPK relating to the significance of constructing lapidary a daily a part of the cottage trade by coaching youth, Zakirullah, a former APCEA chairman, stated moreover coaching youth in lapidary, it was additionally vital that the youth had minimal training of matriculation as a result of in stone chopping, the correct data of geometry was important.
Zakirullah stated APCEA was striving to popularise lapidary within the gemstone trade. “This phase of the gemstone trade have to be promoted by public-private partnerships.”