Nytil monthly bedsheet production plummets 2000 cheap Asian imports flood market

Nytil Textile Industries, one of Uganda’s oldest manufacturing powerhouses, has suffered a dramatic drop in bedsheet production from up to 70,000 pieces per month to a mere 2,000, driven by an influx of cheaper imports from China and India.
The sharp decline underscores the growing pressures facing domestic textile manufacturers despite ongoing government efforts to promote local industrialization.

Speaking during a high-level government delegation visit to the company’s factory in Jinja, Nytil Chairman Kishor Jobanputra revealed that unfair competition from imported finished and…