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BOOM TIME FOR BANGLADESH KNITWEAR INDUSTRY
BY PAUL COCHRANE
BANGLADESH’S knitwear sector is undergoing unprecedented growth: averaging 24% per year over the past 12 years, and an astonishing 45% in the first three months of this fiscal year, with exports projected to reach US$10 billion by 2011.…
CONTRACTING NUMBER OF LARGE PLAYERS PUSH FOR SALES IN HEALTHY BANGLADESH TOBACCO MARKET
BY PAUL COCHRANE
PLAYERS serving the US$900 million Bangladeshi tobacco market have contracted over the past several years from 15 companies to just seven – with Dhaka Tobacco and British American Tobacco (BAT) now joint number one companies in terms of quantity.…
UNDERSTAFFING MAKES BHUTANESE NURSES' DAILY TOIL A REAL GRIND
BY KENCHO WANGDI
LIKE other nurses in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, religion played a part in convincing Dechen Om that she should become a nurse.
A Buddhist, like most of her co-patriots, she believed that by becoming a nurse she would get the chance to serve ill people and earn good karma so in the next life she would be born into a good family.…
BRAZIL IS MAINSTAY OF LATIN AMERICA KNITTING INDUSTRY
BY PACIFICA GODDARD
CHINA’S entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2002 and the recent end of quotas in the US and European markets have created gigantic changes in the textile industry worldwide, with developing markets like those in Latin America expected to suffer the most from these shifts.…
SOUTH ASIAN KNITWEAR INDUSTRY HAVING MIXED FORTUNES AS GLOBALISATION INTENSIFIES
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; SAEED AKHTAR BALOCH, in Lahore; and KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo
THE SOUTH Asian knitwear industry is experienced mixed fortunes at present, with the impact of China’s production boom and the global liberalisation of the textile sector still changing sub-continental fortunes.…
ARGENTINA OILS & FATS
BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas
AS one of South America’s largest economies and the world’s leading
exporter of soy and sunflower oil, Argentina experienced a GDP growth rate
of 8.4 percent in 2006 and 7.9 percent a year earlier, according to the US
Energy and Information Administration.…
CHINA TO BECOME EXPORT MARKET FOR SOUTH ASIAN TEXTILE PRODUCERS
BY DOMINIQUE PATTON, in Beijing, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi, and KEITH NUTHALL
TIME was when the Chinese clothing industry was all about exports. But the astonishing success of China’s export industry has inspired competitors, making life harder for its exporters.…
BISCUITS INDUSTRY UNCERTAIN IN PAKISTAN
SAEED AKHTAR BALOCH, in Lahore
THE PAKISTANI biscuit and confectionery sector has been faring well, with 12-15% growth last year, but there are storm clouds on the horizons because of skyrocketing prices of sugar and flour. In recent years, these ingredient problems have been overshadowed by massive domestic demand, fed by more than 255 biscuit and wafer manufacturing units (42 mechanised) with an installed capacity of 47,000 metric tonnes for biscuits and 5,200 metric tonnes for wafers.…
INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES BOOST BANGLADESH GOATS RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are researching the genes of black Bengal dwarf goats, a key leather livestock in Bangladesh, to improve breeding techniques and the species’ health.…
IFC PUSH FOR BANGLADESH FOOD SAFETY STANDARDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPECIAL training programmes are being launched by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) to spread Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) procedures in Bangladesh’s food manufacturing sector. These formal food health check systems are not widespread in many developing countries, lessening the appeal of their food exports to high value rich county markets.…