The garment sector continues to achieve a breakthrough

​According to the Department of Statistics in Dong Nai, in the first three months of 2022, Dong Nai's textile and garment export turnover reached more than USD415 million, up nearly 5% over the same period last year. Thus, Dong Nai textile and garment has had a relatively positive recovery in the situation that the epidemic is still complicated.

Producing clothes for export at Dong Nai Garment Corporation Joint Stock Company.

Overcoming difficulties

In 2021, the textile and garment industry faces many difficulties, but Dong Nai's textile and garment export turnover still reaches nearly USD1.6 billion and it is still one of the six main export industries of the province. From the end of October, 2021, the textile and garment enterprises in the province gradually recovered their production, but it again fell into difficulties due to lack of labor resources. Many businesses have struggled to find ways to bring workers back to work and recruit new sources of labor for training.

Mr. Bui The Kich, Chairman of the Board of Directors, General Director of Dong Nai Garment Corporation Joint Stock Company (Bien Hoa City) said: “The pandemic has greatly affected the domestic textile industry, first, the lack of input raw materials data, followed by difficulty in output. In particular, the 4^th pandemic in 2021, very few enterprises can keep 100% of the capacity of factories. Dong Nai Garment Corporation promptly converted and expanded the production of non-woven fabrics to make masks and protective clothing, thus they can ensure the production, employment and income for workers.

Many other textile enterprises in Dong Nai said that from the beginning of 2022 until now, the production and export situation has been more favorable compared to the previous year, orders from foreign partners are also abundant. However, textile and garment enterprises face other problems such as: lack of containers, prolonged transportation time, transportation costs, high gasoline prices, etc.

Keep highly growing

Mr. Truong Van Cam, Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association said: "In 2021, despite the pandemic, Vietnam's textile and garment industry will still reach more than USD39 billion because enterprises have positive produced in a closed chain with many orders from yarn-woven-fabric-sewing. However, textile and garment enterprises in the North and Central region grew quite rapidly, and enterprises in the South faced difficulties due to 3 months of social distancing, so many orders were rotated to Central and North. In 2022, the problem that businesses are most worried about is still the Covid-19 pandemic, which will affect the production of human resources in factories.

Textile and garment industry needs the most labor compared to other fields, so if the labor force is not guaranteed, it will directly impact on production. Many enterprises have currently invested in modern machinery and technology to reduce labor, increase productivity and improve income for skilled workers to keep them attached to the factory for a long time. The textile and garment industry, estimated in 2022, will raise the average income of workers to USD4.5-4.6 thousand per a year.

Mr. Tran Nhu Tung, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Thanh Cong Textile and Garment Investment and Trade Joint Stock Company (HCMC) said that the world textile and garment industry as well as the cake has not changed, enterprises in some countries in this field have increased quite fast, so the expanding market share in one place will shrink in another. The textile and garment industries of China, India, and Bangladesh are recently getting ahead, if Vietnamese enterprises stand still, they will gradually lose orders. Therefore, Vietnamese textile and garment enterprises have built a sustainable development strategy according to the requirements of brands, and at the same time become long-term partners with international brands.

Some textile and garment industry experts believe that, in addition to manufacturing according to orders of foreign brands, enterprises should concentrate on building their own brands so that Vietnam's textile and garment industry will have had about 30 brands bearing the same name with the international level as planned by the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association by 2030.

Vi Quan