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India's textile clusters

As India's trade policies are liberalised, its textile industry faces the issue of upgrading its clusters and preparing itself for global competition.

The textile industry is composed of Small and Medium Enterprises which face several common problems:

• Inadequate technology
• Inadequate capacity to source the requisite raw materials, and to market products
• Inability to access institutional credit
• Absence of product innovation and diversification
• Inadequacies in the area of infrastructure.

Despite these problems, with the help of UNIDO and other agencies to improve competitiveness, opportunities for investment and development within this industry are emerging.
Sources:

• http://textilescommittee.nic.in/netsme.htm
• http://www.unido.org/userfiles/RussoF/Vie3.pdf
• http://www.unido.org/en/doc/4308