1. Overview of Textile Industry Country Profile Official name: Peoples Republic of Bangladesh Area: 144 000 sq km Population: 150 million Language: Bengali, English Geographical Location: South Asia Main Industries: Textiles, jute, Leather, Frozen Foods, Agriculture, etc.

2. Garments is the second needs of human. Once man used leafs, barks and animal skin to protect their body from environment condition. It is difficult to say the exact time of the use of fabric for human clothing.

3. 1755, the first sewing machine developed by Charles Fredric of England but the stitch of that machine was like hand stitch. 1851, commercially successful sexing machine developed by Issac Merit Singer. 1829, the first garments factory was established at Paris with 80 sewing m/c to produce uniform for military forces.

4. History of Apparel Industry in Bangladesh There were only 9 export oriented garment manufacturing industry in 1978, earned only 1 million dollar. Some of them were very small, produced RMG for local market as well. Four such small and pioneer garments were Reaz garments, Paris garments, Jewel garments and Boishakhi garments. Reaz garments established in 1960, as a small tailoring outfit, named Reaz store in Dhaka. Served only domestic market of its initial 15 years. In 1973, it changed its name to Reaz Garments Ltd and started to export by selling 10 000 pieces of shirt to France, valued 13 million franc in 1978.That was the first direct export of apparel.

5. History of Apparel Industry in Bangladesh Desh Garments Ltd., first joint venture in Bangladesh, Technical and marketing collaboration with S. korean Daewoo Corporation, established in 1979. First 100% export oriented company. In 1980, Youngone (49%) and Trexim (51% equity) formed a company named younone Bangladesh exported first consignment of padded and non padded jackets to sweden in dec 1980. It had trained 120 operators including 3 women in S. korea Went to the production in 1980.

6. History of Apparel Industry in Bangladesh Till to the end of 1982, there were only 47 garment manufacturing units. Break through occurred in 1984-85 when numbers of garment factories increased to 587. In 1999, there were 2900 garment factory in the country. Average growth rate of garment export is 22%. Now, the numbers of garment manufacturing units in Bangladesh is 5500.

7. Export Products of Bangladesh

8. Contributor

9. Textile Production Mainly Two Sub-sector: a. Woven: Horizontally Integrated 75% woven fabric imported Requires comparatively higher investment. b. Knit: Vertically Integrated Almost self-reliant- 95% Collected Locally. Annual Increment of Consumption of fabric : 20%

10. Backward Linkage To produce garment we need fabrics and accessories. To produce fabric we need yarns and fabrics. To finish the fabric we need dyeing. Printing and finishing mill. If we want to increase the retention money we must have to increase backward linkage industry, like export oriented spinning mill, weaving mill, knitting, dyeing, printing and finishing mills. Side by side we have to increase high quality cotton fiber cultivation. Without it, we have to develop communication system. So all these process related before making garments is backward linkage.

11. Backward Linkage for Knit

12. Value Addition & Net Retention Year1994 2000 2008 Value Addition50%70%75% Net Retention40%55%61%