Jajim caused the reverse migration of rum village
Since 2005, he has decided to repatriate the people who migrated from his village, so he decides to become an entrepreneur and revive the 200-year-old art of his village, namely jajim weaving, and now his work has led to reverse migration and has been able to show the village of rum from the abyss of abandonment.
He says that during these years, 70 people were employed in this field, and most of the forces that Jajim weaves are young people, 24 years old, the youngest of whom are 18 years old, and the oldest of them are 60 years old.
Reza Rezapour states: The village of rum in Ghainat city had a large population at the beginning of the revolution and its people were very talented in jajim weaving and they have been doing this for more than 200 years and because of this art which is unfortunately becoming obsolete due to negligence. We revived it with the aim of developing the village.
The entrepreneur continues: After the construction of the urban cooperatives, many rural youth migrated to the city; We have so far employed 70 people in this field with the aim of creating employment, and this process accelerated, and many people who had migrated returned and started weaving.
He adds: Our vision is to transform the village of Rum into a dynamic and active village by 1400, based on the job of jajim weaving, and to bring it to a decent population. According to the polls and surveys that we do every year, God willing, we will reach this goal soon.
Rezapour, stating that he has not decided to take the profits from this work alone, says about the beginning of his work: All those who work in this field are shareholders and apart from the salary they receive, they also receive their monetary profit from this work. they do. In addition to dividends and wages, they also receive other service measures. For example, we have set up the Qarz al-Hasna fund, and so far we have paid two million tomans in loans to each of them.
The entrepreneur also continued: From Eid onwards, we have decided to pay them a loan of three million Tomans. We also got involved in their housing debate and provide free assistance to families who have an elite student, memorizer of the Quran or inventor. We also help those who work at home or have a new child on the way and try to be by their side in all problems.
We do not rely much on government support, he said. We want to say that we have saved this village without the help of the government until 1400, when our vision becomes a reality. But the government has also provided assistance, and this year, due to the licenses we received from the cultural heritage, we received a loan of 100 million Tomans from Qarz al-Hasna from the Mehr Reza (AS) Fund and supported us as a top entrepreneur, but relied heavily on government assistance. We do not have.
Rezapour also says about Jajim export of this village: Our export plan is supposed to be realized by the end of 1394, because we needed a series of infrastructures such as packaging, standardization, branding and finally export and we are preparing it until the end of 1994. To achieve. We are currently considering two countries, Iraq and Afghanistan, for export. Because through the pilgrimage tourism that comes to Mashhad from Iraq, we have introduced our products to them and we have found a medium for this. We have also chosen Afghanistan because of its proximity to South Khorasan Province and the common language.
In the last two years, many companies have stopped or closed down, but despite this economic situation, we are moving forward and we have not stopped, but overall, our situation has been satisfactory, he said.
This entrepreneur says: Khorasan Razavi is more in favor of the Jajims of Rum village. In all tourism provinces, we have considered the level of sales as a distributor of products. For example, by considering concessions for someone who is a wholesaler in his own province and is known to almost everyone, we introduce him as a distributor in the province so that handicraft shops can buy from him. In fact, we use the power and potential of the individual to increase sales.
One of our most important concerns is the lack of proper supervision by the authorities in the field of jajim weaving. Regardless of whether the relevant village is able to do this and whether it observes healthy competitive conditions or not, it gives him permission and privileges to do so, while some rules are implemented without expertise. Such as value added tax or craft insurance that is currently suspended.
Rezapour says: The insurance for handicraft artists started four years ago and a large number of friends who worked with us were insured. All of them see their insured through my eyes. Now that the government has suspended this insurance and a new member for They do not accept insurance, they think I am neglecting them, that is why there has been negative feedback, and some people are worried about it and say that because the veterans are insured and we are not, then the previous group should continue working and do not want to continue cooperating.
The entrepreneur states: If the issue of value added tax and insurance is resolved, we will solve the remaining problems in the field ourselves. Value added tax also has several problems. We have a number of operational problems in the handicraft market. All raw materials for handicrafts are taken from nature. We who can not pay 8% VAT to nature and then get 8% VAT after we sell our product.
Rezapour says: Our next problem is the handicraft shops on our side of the account who are not willing to have an option called VAT added at the end of their invoice and until the VAT name is mentioned, they say we will pay for it, but if our name is to be The tax and property office should be registered so that we can pay performance tax from now on. We will not buy your goods. Most individuals are tax-exempt, but I am not exempt as a legal entity. The price of my product is not competitive with others and it becomes more expensive. For these reasons, we want to eliminate VAT on handicrafts.