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The share of Khadi fabric in the total textile mill production has doubled to 8.49 per cent in five years to 2018-19, the Khadi and Village Industries Commission said Tuesday.

While the mill fabric production was 2,486 million square metres in the 2014-15 fiscal, the production of Khadi was 105.38 million square metres – showing a share of 4.23 per cent of the overall textiles production.

Related Keywords: fabric production, MEG are also rising, polyester yarn prices, prices of petrochemicals like DMT, PTA, raw materials for producing polyester yarn largely used by Surat based power looms, Surat based power looms, Surat textile industry, Surat textile weavers and processors, synthetic fabric, yarn

There was a meeting last week of all Surat power loom co-operatives and job workers involving hundreds and thousands of workers where they have proposed to reduce daily operating shifts from three to two. Many employees are also starting to go on leave. Reducing shift means fall in production. A leading composite mill executive said that post GST, there was a fall in a third of Surat synthetic fabric production.

Related Keywords: All Pakistan Textiles Mills Association, experience drop, fabric production, high power consuming sector, pakistan spinning sector, Pakistan textile industry, pakistan weaving industry, textile export, textile trade body

Pakistan’s all high power consuming sectors weaving and spinning registered a drop in exports by 2.37 percent in July due to power supply and instability prevailing in Pakistan. But the share of textiles in total exports of Pakistan has improved to 64 percent in July, according to textile trade body.

Related Keywords: Cotton market, EPZ programme, fabric production, Kenyan textile industry, second hand garments, SEZ

The Kenyan textile industry has made a sizeable contribution to income generation in rural areas by providing a market for cotton. The major factor inhibiting the growth of a textile industry in Kenya is the high cost of electricity and it reliability which accounts for about 35 percent of the cost of fabric production in Kenya, compared to 16 per cent in India.

The Kenyan government has taken up the task to revive its textile and leather sectors, and to improve efficiency in manufacturing companies in order to boost trade in the country.