Textile Ministry to start a three months training programme for youth during next financial year to provide skilled labour force to textile industry and enhance exports from the country.
An official in the Ministry of Textile Industry said on Friday that the youth would be trained for clean cotton picking to avoid crop pollution to boost the exports to benefit from the Generalised System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) status given by the European Union (EU).
He informed that due to pollution and adulteration in the commodity, local cotton was sold in reduced prices in international markets as the country has been facing about US$ 5.5 million losses per annum.
He said that a proper standardization process would also be introduced to promote cotton exports from the country.
The labour force would also be provided training of knitting, sewing and stitching for the development for textile value addition and to enhance the range of products in international market, he added.
He further said that government was determined to enhance textile exports up to US$ 26 billion during next five years by paying special attention to the value addition products.
He further informed that despite energy crisis in the country, textile exports from the country raised seven per cent during the last 10 months.
The official said that textile exports grew by 8.03 percent during first two months (March-April) after getting the GSP+ status from EU.
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