INDIA TEXTILE 2017 EXPO AIMS TO BOOST DIVERSIFICATION AND BACKWARD LINKAGE CONNECTIONS

ORGANISERS of a major three-day India Textile 2017 exhibition in Gujarat have hoped to use the event to encourage product diversification and better supply chain links within the country’s growing textile sector. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s oft quoted maxim – ‘from farm to fibre, fibre to fabric, fabric to fashion and fashion to foreign markets’ - was the guiding principle for the event that concluded in Gujarat’s capital Gandhinagar on July 2. It brought under one roof all textile industry participants, from fibre growers and processors ...


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