The Kenyan government recently identified the textiles and apparels sector as a top priority for burgeoning economic growth in the country.

The Kenya Industrial Transformation Program has played a key role in making the textiles and apparels sector manifest as a priority for the country’s income generation.

The textile sector of the country not only boosts the cotton farming activities but also helps in reviving the textile mills. This creates a fully developed value chain, which has the capacity to absorb significant number of people in the workforce.

Besides, activities like cotton farming and apparel manufacture offer a lot of scope for employment by virtue of being highly labour intensive.

At present this sector happens to be the bread-winner or the crucial foreign exchange provider for Kenya.