About 80% of the women in Marandiz village are weavers
The head of Bajestan Mining Industry and Trade Department also said: One of the things that is very important in Bajestan city and especially in Marandiz village is handmade carpets, weavers and carpet weavers.
Mehdi Tahoonehban stated: In Marandiz village, we have three cooperatives that these cooperatives have been able to create jobs for about 700 people in the village, which is very important for the village, which has a small population, and it can be said that about 80% of women in the village Marandiz are weavers and that is why this village has been called the handmade carpet village of the province.
In addition to the three cooperatives, we also have about 20 home-based business sponsors, each covering 10 to 20 people, who cover carpet weavers in the home-based business, said Tahonehban.
He mentioned sales and marketing as one of the major problems of handmade carpets and said: It is true that the outbreak of Corona virus has negatively affected most businesses and handmade carpets are no exception, but marketing and sales is one of the many problems of handmade carpets in the city. Is.
There are good things that have been done to improve the sales market, including trying to update designs and design them according to customer tastes, but marketing still has a lot of work to do, he said.
He mentioned the issue of carpet weaving insurance as one of the important problems of weavers and added: Since the end of 1992, the Social Security Organization does not cover new weavers with insurance, which has been followed up, but these follow-ups have not reached anywhere yet.
He also cited the lack of low-interest facilities for weavers and the difficulty of providing quality raw materials as other obstacles and challenges they face in the field of handmade carpets.
Undoubtedly, the existence of obstacles and problems may not have an effect on the quality of work in the short term, but over time, its negative effects will certainly be tangible and obvious, and the hope of many of these hard-working and enthusiastic weavers is that Take a step away from slogans and timeliness for them.
Marandiz village with a population of 4800 people is located 35 km northeast of Bajestan city.