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The Mozambique government has been for the past more than two decades trying to revive its textile and garment industry, after its near total collapse in the 1990s.
Very few factories are operating there at present, and even those that are functioning has an output much below its capacity, and that too, only when they get orders. Now, the government is trying to revive Textáfrica, a textile factory located in the provincial capital of Manica, in central Mozambique.
Provincial Governor Alberto Mondlane was quoted by Mozambican daily newspaper Diário de Moçambique as saying in Chimoio that the country’s government was examining the feasibility of the industry’s revival in that region of the country. However, the Governor seemed to be conveying this with a cautious note, not to get hopes too high for the region, since studies were still on and its future can still not be gauged.
After Portuguese group-owned textile mills Textáfrica and Empresa Moçambicana de Malhas (EMMA) shut down, cotton cropping had also reduced in that part of the country, followed by over 3,000 workers losing their livelihood.
An initiative to revive the factory was first made in June 2006 by Minister of Industry and Trade Antonio Fernando, who reportedly told Mozambican daily newspaper Notícias that government is in talks with some foreign investors, who can help put Textáfrica back in operation. Meanwhile, he also said that negotiations are also on to relaunch Texmoque, a textile company based in the city of Nampula.
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