{"id":4535,"date":"2019-08-14T09:56:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T06:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","slug":"new-strategy-to-revamp-ugandas-textile-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/14\/new-strategy-to-revamp-ugandas-textile-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"New Strategy To Revamp Uganda\u2019s Textile Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Michael Wakabi <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda\nhas completed the development of a strategy for its cotton, textiles and\napparels sector that could generate 50,000 new jobs and $650 million in\nadditional export revenues over the next eight years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The strategy, which is also supposed to feed into the third edition of the National Development Plan NDP III, should result in increased fiber cotton production, scale-up domestic value addition and create employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides the need to address structural and policy bottlenecks that currently hamper the development of the cotton value chain, there will be a need to establish five new vertically integrated textile mills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\naddition to increasing value to Uganda\u2019s cotton output, the factories would\nemploy 50,000 workers earning a combined $50 million annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nstrategy proposes to revive the cotton production value chain and investment in\nexport-oriented apparel as well as garment production factories that would\ninitially rely on imported fabric\u2026.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/business\/New-strategy-to-revamp-Uganda-textile-sector\/2560-5233668-avir9pz\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Wakabi Uganda has completed the development of a strategy for its cotton, textiles and apparels sector that could generate 50,000 new jobs and $650 million in additional export&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}