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March 02, 2012
The Kenyan government is launching a 1.8-billion-shilling ($22-million) plan to revive the flagging textile industry, which has suffered in recent years due to the widespread availability of second-hand clothes, Business Daily Africa reported on Thursday (March 1st).
The funds, which come from a World Bank loan, will be used to expand the growth of cotton, modernise ginneries and promote the textile industry, which currently operates at 30% capacity, the paper reported.
Ministry of Industrialisation Permanent Secretary Karanja Kibicho said the ministry will launch a "Buy Kenya, Build Kenya" campaign to promote domestically made clothing. "This will discourage the rapid growth of the mitumba [second-hand] industry, which in essence is dumping goods in the country," Kibicho said at the inauguration of the Textiles and Leather Institute in Thika.
The Kenya Revenue Authority almost doubled the import duty for shipping containers in December, also doubling prices for used clothes in the process, according to the Gikomba Traders Association.
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The unemployment that is dogging Kenya is due to the damping of old clothes into the country, may we raise up and accept to revive our industries like what Moi University in Kenya has done