A group of entrepreneurs from the West African country of Burkina Faso approached the Tiruppur Exporters Association (TEA) on Wednesday to seek advice on converting cotton grown in their country into garments and adding value.
A team of 14 entrepreneurs from African countries on Wednesday held a discussion with functionaries of Tiruppur Exporters’ Association on making of garments and value-added products from cotton.
The Tiruppur Exporters Association (TEA) expressed disappointment that some of its expectations were not addressed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, but hoped they would materialise it in the coming days.
The scope for expansion of the knitwear cluster in Tiruppur through export of MMF (manmade fibre) garments will be examined, S.C.L. Das, Secretary, Ministry of MSME, said on Wednesday.
An interactive session was held with garment exporters in Tiruppur on Thursday on Japanese Style Inspection and Quality Requirements by the Association for Overseas Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Partnership (AOTS), Japan, under India-Japan Partnership in Industrial Competitiveness.
With a contraction of 14 per cent in knitwear exports during 2023–24, India's textiles export hub Tiruppur is back in positive terrain in 2024–25, with the first three months seeing a rise in exports.