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Morocco’s industrial strategy has made textiles a priority. SEFITA, Moroccan textile company plans to install two manufacturing lines in the Ivorian capital by January for the production of 12,000 uniforms a month and over 144,000 per year as it has won a $1 million contract to manufacture uniforms for Ivorian police and military.

Related Keywords: AGOA, American market, EPZ, Kenyan government, Kenyan textile trade, paltry cotton, plan to give cotton farmers boost, providing certified seed, revive textile industry

Following the recent US government extension of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) for 10 years, under which Kenyan textiles trade in the American market. The Kenyan government has taken the first steps to revive the textile industry with plans to give cotton farmers 750 tonnes of certified seed this year.

In the short term, the government, through the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority (Affa), will provide 50 tonnes of seed for free to cotton growers by end of August, with the condition that farmers commit to provide land for cotton farming expansion.