Related Keywords: Angolian textile and apparel industry facing grave problems, assistance to family production of cotton, cover deficit, impact on cotton production, importing cotton yarn a year to feed textile plants, investment made to grow cotton locally, new technology, to set textile industry in motion, units to restart production in coming few months
Angolian textile and apparel industry has been facing severe problems for past decade, which had a huge impact on cotton production. To cover the deficit the country is faced with to set its textile industry in motion will be importing at least 20,000 tons of cotton yarn a year to feed the textile plants of Satec, in central Cuanza Norte province, Textang II (Luanda) and Africa Têxtil in central Benguela province, as the units gear up to restart production in the coming few months.
