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Industry and Trade
for the first three years.
• Location Incentives (tax rebate) for manufacturing
industries located in the regional capitals.
The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre Act, 1994,
also provides for automatic incentives and benefits.
Please consult the website, www.gipcghana.com for
further information.
GHANA’S TEXTILES
AND GARMENTS SECTOR
Sector Overview
The textiles and garments sector is predominantly
cotton-based although the production of man-made
fibres is also undertaken on a small scale. The tex-
tiles and garments sector in Ghana can be subdi-
vided into the following different groups:
• Export-based readymade garments
• Traditional textiles like Kente and wax prints
• Custom-made garments
• Ready-to-wear garments for the domestic market.
Textiles and garments exports from Ghana comprise
of fancy prints, wax prints, java prints, calico smock,
ladies dresses, men’s wear, etc. Indigenous textile
products like Kente, Adinkra (hand-prints) smock or
Fugu are also exported. Batik or tie and dye fabrics
are also used to produce all kinds of products for the
export markets.
These products include: a unique brand of care-
fully crafted handbags, casual wear for ladies and
gents, shirts, dresses, napkins, cushion covers,
bedspreads, chair backs, curtains, toys and many
others.
Some key players in this sector include Ghana Tex-
tile Printing Company Limited (GTP), Ghana Textile
Manufacturing Company Limited (GTMC), Akosom-
bo Textile Limited (ATL), Printex Limited and Global
Garments & Textile Limited.
The Market
A total annual output of about 40 million yards was
produced by the industry in 2009. Further produc-
tion capacity exists. Textile export is an important
source of foreign exchange and revenue to textile
manufacturing firms. In the year 2000, Ghana quali-
fied for duty and quota free access to the US market
via the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).
In 2008 export of textile from Ghana reached
USD$1,039,900.
The main export destination for made-in-Ghana tex-
tiles includes EU countries, the USA and ECOWAS.
In order to serve this market as well as improve the
textiles sector, various initiatives have been under-
taken including:
The Textiles and Garments Industry Cluster Net-
work
- formed to address the problems and chal-
lenges faced by the sector. Since its inception, the
cluster has assisted in training in mass production
strategies, sub-contracting, up-grading of technical
and marketing/managerial skills of members, and
providing financial assistance.
Export Action Programme on Textiles and Gar-
ments
- designed to promote and enhance private
sector growth and development within the govern-
ment’s vision of creating a “Golden Age of Business”
in the country.
Textiles & Garments Training Centre
which is part
of investments made to build sufficient garments
manufacturing capacity in Ghana to supply the US
market on a sustainable basis, a USD$1.2 million ul-
tramodern Clothing Technology and Training Centre
has been established in Ghana.
The capacity of the training centre is 10,000 trainees
per year. The textiles and garments industry is also
supported by 21 vocational training institutes in the
country, which provide basic practical and theoretical
training and assistance in tailoring and dressmaking.
Additionally, production facilities have been further
developed and include:
1.
Factories constructed at Tema Export Processing
Zone (EPZ) and allocated to companies for the pro-
duction of garments for export.
2.
Warehouses at the old Ghana National Trading
Company (GNTC) complex have been converted to
factories and allocated to entrepreneurs for the pro-
duction of garments for export.
3.
Additional factories to be converted from ware-
houses purchased from the Ghana Textiles Manu-
facturing Company (GTMC) for use by entrepre-
neurs.