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“Taking Khadi: local to Global”

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..... “Taking Khadi: local to Global”
News and Press Release
Dated:- 30-1-2018

"Taking Khadi: local to Global" Discussion at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Textiles and apparel sector has made a significant contribution by providing both direct and indirect employment to almost 35 and 50 million Indians respectively, making it the largest employment sector after agriculture. This make .....

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..... s Khadi an important segment for concentrating towards export promotion. A round table discussion on taking KHADI:local to global was organized by Indian Institute of Foreign Trade on 30th Jan 2018 with support from KVIC and UDAAN SKILL. The event focused on connecting the global demand and supply of Khadi, identifying newer markets and product diversification; developing promotional strategies to .....

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..... enter newer markets, inputs on trade policy, market access at WTO front, compliances, design interventions and possibilities of CSR interventions from corporates and PSUs. Shri Suresh Prabhu, Hon'ble Minister for Commerce and Industry said that "The export prospects of Khadi is rest assured with world moving towards natural and Eco-friendly Products. More and more people are becoming conscious o .....

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..... f responsibility towards the environment and ecology and greater demand is being generated for bio-degradable and Eco-friendly products. It is for this reason the new MEIS 2015-20 policy also emphasizes on export incentives on eco-friendly textiles giving it a 34% growth last years from 52,000 crore to 70,000 crore turn over" The minister further added that this round table discussion on "Khadi .....

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..... exports" is pertinent considering the fact that while textile sector being the largest source of employment generation in the country contributing to country's 15% exports; share of Khadi sector is very low (less than 0.22%) in total textile sector. Hence focus on exports of this sector becomes important.End to end marketing strategy with support from trading houses and academic institutes like II .....

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..... FT is the need of the hour, he said. Shri. V.K.Saxena, Chairman, KHADI AND Village Industries Commission who was the Guest of honour explained about the diversity of efforts made by KVIC towards promotion of Khadi right from meeting the issues on raw material procurement, wage levels of rural artisans, technological and design interventions and making it a sustainable and export worthy segment. " .....

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..... Its export worthiness also comes from the fact that Indian Khadi earns a lot of water and carbon foot print since it requires only 3 litres of water as compared to 56 liters in other fabrics" said Mr. Saxena. Apart from the supply side constraints for raw material procurement and production, there is also a strong need for establishing a strong demand in global markets. This will require the inno .....

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..... vation in terms of diversification in product and market. Lack of product diversification is quite visible through limited export basket of Khadi which currently includes silk and muslin, readymade garments, textile-based Khadi and charkha. IIFT with a strong research capability can contribute towards establishing a market intelligence and give inputs on appropriate policy instruments and contribu .....

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..... te towards cluster development said Prof. Manoj Pant, Director, IIFT. "Giving boost to export startups, KITTES, IIFT incubation cell would aim at developing new startups working towards Khadi exports" said Dr. Tamanna Chaturvedi, Co-ordinator, KITTES. Event was attended by Foreign Embassies; corporates including Raymonds, Future group, Aditya Birla, Hero, Maruti Suzuki India Limited; PSUS includi .....

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..... ng LIC, NHPC, HPCL etc, EXIM bank, Amazon India, FICCI representatives of ICHR etc.
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