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Bombay Dyeing and Manufacturing Company, the 137-year-old textile manufacturer with 25 company-owned stores and franchises across nine towns in Tamil Nadu, has big plans for the State focusing more on retail business.

Technological upgradation fund scheme (TUFS) was launched in 1999 with the objective of providing credit and capital subsidy to textile and clothing industries to modernise the textile units. This was given to help in enhancing the labour and capital productivity and enhance production of high quality products.

Kenya plans to revive its cotton industry, a major foreign-exchange earner until the 1980s, amid strong demand for lint from domestic mills and the potential to supply manufacturers exporting clothing and textiles to the U.S. under a preferential trade deal.

The Botswana Textile and Clothing Association (BTCA) has sought measures including action on export incentives, tendering system and release of permits for skilled foreign workers, among others, to bail out the industry.

Pakistan?s exports of textile and clothing witnessed a decline of 2.64 per cent in July-August on a year-on-year basis.

Textiles and clothing has always been a part of the human culture. The Garden of Eden was the first instance in which man asked to be covered and since then the clothing industry have come a long way.