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Institute to Equip Market with 100,000 Trained Manpower

The Ethiopian Textile Industry Development Institute (ETDI) announced it is preparing to supply up to 100,000 trained personnel by the coming year.

According to Bantihun Gesesse, ETDI’s Public Relations and Communication Director, there is an increase in the number of investors that are engaging in the textile industry. He furthered, the figure today stands today at 130 textile factories.

Explaining the need for the trained personnel the communication director said the textile factories need sufficient well trained manpower. To achieve this technical and vocational institutions are supplying the market with manpower for facilities that are in their localities.

Bantihun further noted there are 145 instructors of technical and vocational institutes that were trained as trainer of trainers. In addition to this over 1,360 received a basic tailoring and other types of training.

According to Bantihun, during the past 11 months of the current fiscal year Ethiopia has received total revenue of U.S $ 103 Million from exporting textile and garments. He added this shoes an increase of 10 percent when compared to the same period of last year.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency