Chennai: The lower levels of textile sector- garment and spinning are prone to exceptional crisis that owes to high labor and input costs. Some aspect of blame game is there between the knitters and spinners. Tirupur’s knitwear units blame textile spinning mills for raising the prices of yarn. According to them, higher yarn exports are another reason for rise in prices.
Spinners are pleading helplessly, telling they have to face rapid rise in prices of cotton, power cut for many hours and increasing costs for labor and power. SIMA, South India Mills, the spinners association is not supposed to meddle with mill’s commercial activities and unlikely, more than 3,300 mills located all around the country were found to be acting simultaneously. But at the same time it is also said by them that Tirupur should be mending its own direction modernizing the entire process of production, decreasing environment cost and raising labor productivity.
Chairman of SIMA, Mr. J Thulasidhara explained in Coimbatore that best efforts along with privileged packages would be benefiting the whole value chain of textile, starting from the spinning units. His suggestions included corrective measures towards determined exports of cotton during peak season and help the industry in getting benefited from home grown cotton, providing assistance of working capital to spinners for sourcing cotton quality and adequate quantity during the season, also having a leveled field with MNC traders of cotton and supply continuous power supply to the textile sector at competitive prices.