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Peru exporters want more efforts to ensure textile growth
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The textile and clothing sector in Peru has great potential, but the difficult
economic environment in major markets, fall in the exchange rate, and growing
labour costs are impeding their exports, according to Asociación de
Exportadores (ADEX or Association of Exproters).
The situation calls for doubling of efforts to ensure growth of the textile and
apparel sector, ADEX said in a statement.
The association’s president Varilias Juan Velasquez said the progress in
increasing the country’s cotton output has been minimal in spite of the
Government’s S 0.22 per quintal compensation given to farmers to encourage
cotton cultivation.
The availability of cotton at competitive prices is essential for growth of the
country’s textile and apparel sector, and urged the Government to change its
strategy, as the present strategy has not worked, Mr. Velasquez said.
The chairman of ADEX’s garment division, Mr. Pedro Gamio Palacios too
defended the need to retain the competitiveness of cotton and called for
implementing a comprehensive strategy for increasing the productivity and
strengthening cooperation among farmers.
He said agriculture is very fragmented with farmers owning tiny plots of land. He
suggested increasing the area under cotton plantation, and adapting modern
agronomic procedures to yield a good crop that can even be exported.
The cotton grown in Peru is bought by the textile industry at prices prevailing in
the international market, but owing to lack of productivity and other factors,
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