Value addition by weaving, processing & garmenting: CII
18 May '06
5 min read
Cloth processing, a major thrust area for Andhra Pradesh, is to grow almost 100 times to touch a figure of around 1300 million meter by 2015. Presently the State has less than 3 percent of processing capacity of the raw fabric produced. CII expects that by 2010 the State shall be processing 50 percent of the fabric produced other than the handloom sector by 2010 and may attempt to process 70 percent of fabric within the State by 2015.
The projected target would mean the processing of 600 million metres by 2010 and 1300 million metres by 2015. It is recommended that adequate number of processing units need to be setup in the State so that the value realized after weaving is higher than what the State presently earns. Since the availability of water is adequate in coastal Andhra Pradesh, the processing units can be setup in this belt.
In the Knitting sector, AP presently produces 20 tons per day of knitted fabrics, which is less than 1 percent of Tirupur production capacity. However, considering woven to knitted ratio as 70:30, the high potential the State can target up to adding 250 ton per day by 2010 and 500 ton per day by 2015.
In garments, cotton garments is to dominate by constituting 70-75 percent of the market. The State's garment export will grow over 40 times to 600 million pieces in 2015. The Study suggests that major garmenting units of the State can be brought up in and around Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Guntur.
CII also recommends the Government to setup more Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV) where the Government would have 40 percent holding and the private players would have 60 percent for the maintenance and sharing of common resources in the textile/apparel parks being set up in the State.
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