The garment, sector industry provides highest value
addition in the textile sector. This sector distributed in small, medium, and
large-scale units, most of them, having 50 machines and below. This sector is
attracting considerable investment in the organized sector and now many units
are coming into production stream.
The “Textile Vision 2005” has great emphasis on
this sector; the sub-sector is facing multi-dimensional problems like high
value addition in competing countries and increased prices of years and cotton
cloth or other inputs to the end user.
against all these odds, this sector has witnessed
substantial growth in terms of quantity exported and the dollar value of
exports. During 2008-09 exports reached up to US $ 919,222 million.
The installed capacity of Rotors during 2008-09 was
203 thousand while working capacity was only 124 thousands.