“…Agricultural development in green areas is expected to have a strategic role in improving a sustainable development, creating harmony and balance in the process of economic empowerment, and transferring environmentally friendly technologies Muafi, 2016a;2016b;Muafi, 2017). Ayandibu and Houghton (2017) stated that in developing countries, the contribution of SMEs towards employment generation is significant because they: (a) nurture entrepreneurship, (b) it helps to reduce risks (reduce crime rates), (c) support the building up of systemic productive capacities and the creation of resilient economic systems, through linkages between SME, (d) tend to use more labour intensive production processes than large enterprises, boosting employment and leading to more equitable income distribution and (e) value adding processing activities in agriculturally based economies".…”