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Related Keywords: cotton cultivation, Ethiopia export revenue, Ethiopian textile export, garment, Growth and Transformation Plan period, Textile industry development institute, textile products, yarn and fabrics

Ethiopia’s export revenue from textile products has witnessed augmentation during the Growth and Transformation Plan period, but with lower pace, the Textiles Industry Development Institute (TIDI) said.

The country's revenue from textile export which was 62.2 million USD in 2003E.C has reached 111 million USD last fiscal year.

Related Keywords: agriculture value addition, cotton, cotton cultivation, Cotton growers, Pakistan textile industry, raw material

Cotton is an important source of raw material to the textile industry which has helped the textile industry to achieve $ 10.385 billion during the period of first nine months of this fiscal year as foreign exchange to national exchequer. The cotton shares 1.4 percent in GDP and 6.7 percent in agriculture value addition, which was cultivated on an area of 28,06,000 hectares, 2.5 percent less than last year’s area of 28,79,000 hectares. The production stood at 12.8 million bales during the period against the target of 14.1 million bales set, according to the Ministry of Textile.