Factors affecting the garments productivity in sewing room
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Date
2007
Authors
Waqas Anis
Furqan Amin
Hafiz Sohaib Ahmad
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UMT.Lahore
Abstract
Textile and clothing are the two major industries of the Pakistan and contributing 63.92% (Federal Bureau of Statistics August 2006) of the total export. These industries are accounting round about 46% of the total manufacturing and also providing employment over 38% of the total manufacturing labor force. The machinery of textile and garments has imported of over USD 4 billion during the last few years that considerably improved the quality and the productivity of the Pakistan textile and clothing products. The Government of Pakistan are also more focusing in this industry and targeting more than USD 10 billion of exports of textile and the garments made-ups in the following years. The Government of Pakistan also has planned the "Textile City" in Lahore and Karachi. Obviously this step of the government will help the industry to achieve the targets of textile and clothing exports and will also helpful to improve thequality and the productivity of the products through new machinery. At this time we should more focus on garment and knitwear exports of Pakistan. At this time round about 5000 plus garment units are operating in Pakistan. In these units 12% are said to be large scale and 88% are small almost small house industry level. The industry is using round about 250,000 industrial sewing machines and half a million domestic sewing machines in this sector. In the field of knitting too there are about 750 big and small units. In the last economic year Pakistan fetched more than US $2 billion from the export of garments and knitwear and expects the more growth in the earnings in the current year. These two sectors, said to be the highest value added textile products, are likely to emerge main foreign exchange earning items in the post 2005 world export market. According to World Trade Organization, Pakistan did the Business of 3604 US million in 2005 and has the 1.25% share in the total world clothing exports. And its ranking is till on the position of 19th in the world clothing export. According to Federal Bureau of Pakistan there is 8.66% and 18.46% positive growth in august 2006 in the filed of knitting and clothing respectively with respect to august 2005. While the share in export of Knitting and clothing has become 13.41% and 8.95% respectively in august 2006. Even our neighbor countries India, Bangladesh and China are on too much high position in the world ranking and growing more day by day which is too much alarming for Pakistan.