The following is a round-up of apparel and footwear news from the world’s local media.
- Egypt’s Ministry of Industry and Trade will launch a second textile city in the city of Badr city on an area of 1m sqm, according to Minister Tarek Kabil. The city includes 198 plots of land including textile, garment and dyeing industries. DAILY NEWS EGYPT
- Uzbekistan is looking to create a “green corridor” in Russia, with regard to the supply of its textile products. The Uzbek minister of foreign trade suggested the proposal at the Uzbek-Russian business forum. He noted the effectiveness of such a programme on the supply of fruit and veg products from Uzbekistan to Russia. A “green corridor” for the supply of textile products to Russia, he said, would bring the volume of trade in the sector in 2018 up to US$700m. UZBEKISTAN TODAY
- Ghana’s Ministry of Trade and Industry has revealed it will form a taskforce on textiles to address the issue of pirated textiles into the country. The move follows the 2010 introduction of such a taskforce, which the Textiles, Garment and Leather Employees Union (TEGLU) says did tackle the problem associated with piracy of the local textile industry but it subsequently returned when the taskforce stopped its operations. TEGLU then put pressure on the government to reconstitute the taskforce. GHANA WEB
- The Maharashtra government is seeking input from the local industry regarding a new textile policy for 2017-22 it is currently working on. Textile minister Subhash Deshmukh says textile companies, as part of their social responsibility, should come forward to set up garment units in rural areas to help with the nation’s development. INDIAN EXPRESS
- The government of Gujarat has announced a new apparel and garment policy aimed at attracting investments worth INR20,000cr. As part of the announcement, Gujarat chief minister, Vijay Rupani, said the government would be setting up 16 new Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) industrial estates that would generate employment for 100,000. The policy aims to retain use of cotton grown in the state by boosting the textile value chain of farm, fibre, fabric, fashion and foreign (exports). BUSINESS STANDARD
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Ethiopia is on the right track in terms of commercialising Bt cotton production, which helps promote the textile and garment industry, according to The Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR). Apart from familiarising with the technology, the necessary infrastructural development has been put in place to encourage investors. It added, employing modern technologies and using improved cotton varieties are a must to commercialise Bt cotton and speed up the industrialisation process. ALL AFRICA
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