Recently, India’s Tirubha Garment Industry Cluster released data showing that textile companies in the region exported clothing worth 100.5 billion rupees in the first half of this year. It is expected that by the end of this fiscal year, the export volume is expected to reach 210 billion rupees, while Exports in FY13 were Rs 175 billion.
The Tirubha Export Organization aims to achieve an export volume of 360 billion rupees during 2016-2017. However, to achieve this goal, there are still many potential problems that need to be solved, such as: labor, electricity and exchange rate fluctuations. There are nearly 400,000 workers engaged in garment production in Tirupur, 50,000 of whom are migrant workers, mainly from Odisha, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Most of them live in factories or dense communities, separated from other social groups. Since workers’ wages are very low, about 9,000 rupees a month, labor relations are very tense.
Tirubha is a small town in southern India. It is now an important production base of cotton knitwear in India. With cotton prices and exchange rates stabilizing, confidence in Tirubha’s textile and apparel exports has soared. The Tiruba garment industry cluster gathers a large number of workers in Tiruba and neighboring areas. The wages are very low, so the clothing it produces is very competitive in the international market. Ralph Lauren, GAP, H&M and Wal-Mart, etc. Well-known international companies have entrusted the factories here to produce various types of clothing.
Tiruba’s next growth expectation is in the production of chemical fiber textiles, and its target markets are Europe and the United States. Sakthivel, the head of a clothing company located in the region, said that clothing produced from natural fibers such as cotton has reached a saturation point, and in the future, chemical fiber textile clothing will have huge development potential.