Green Culture and Environment Sustainability of Manufacturing Firms in Delta State, Nigeria.

Abstract

The study was informed by the astronomical rate of unemployment in the society and the rate at which SME’s go moribund within few years of establishment and thereby defeating the purpose for which they were established, while the research questions addressed the extent to which multiple taxation, lack of managerial skills, poor financing and infrastructural decay constitute major challenges in the performance of SME’s within the period under review, it assumes that government intervention through the provision of adequate financial support, favourable taxation policies, investment in social infrastructures and skills/technical education will reverse the trend. Descriptive research design was employed using 120 randomly selected registered operators of SME’s in Asaba metropolis. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics while formulated policies were tested using Z-test. Results from the data analysis indicated that multiple taxation, lack of managerial skills, poor financing and infrastructural decay were major entrepreneurial challenges confronting SME’s in the region. The study recommended that government should provide an enabling environment by granting of soft loans, regulating taxation policies and investments on infrastructural drive and, education skills through public/private sector partnership and capacity building that will revolutionize immediate growth in SME’s in the region, and Nigeria at large.