[🇧🇩] Handloom Industry in Bangladesh: Prospects & Challenges

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Date of Event: Feb 27, 2025

Source: https://www.newagebd.net/post/mis/258865/profiteers-hurt-handloom-industry-bashir

Profiteers hurt handloom industry: Bashir
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka 26 February, 2025, 22:53

Textiles and jute adviser Sk Bashir Uddin on Wednesday said that some profit-mongers hampered the normal pace of country’s handloom industry misusing the government facilities given to this industry for its development.

‘The government has made arrangements to import some materials with duty concessions to develop the weaving industry but some people have misused it. Some miscreants have unfortunately fulfilled their lust here in search of profit,’ he said.

The adviser said these while speaking as chief guest at a workshop on ‘Reform and development of the conventional methods of supplying yarn, dyes and chemicals to weavers at fair prices’ organized by the Bangladesh Handloom Board under the National Integrity Strategy at the Jute Diversification Promotion Centre in the capital’s Tejgaon.

Bashir said that the sincere cooperation of the government for the development of the weaving industry had been misused by some miscreants in this sector.

As a result, not only the government has been deprived of customs benefits, the weavers have also been deprived of its benefits, he added.

He said that if any proposal came from this workshop that would benefit the weavers, the government would consider it.

He said, ‘The government is providing products to 63 lakh people at subsidized prices through the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh. This will be gradually increased to one crore. We will think about including the marginal weavers of the country in this process.’

Textiles And jute secretary Md Abdur Rauf presided over the programme while BHB chairman (additional secretary) Abu Ahmed Siddique, textiles and jute additional secretary Arifur Rahman Khan and Bangladesh Textile Mills Corporation chairman Brigadier General SM Zahid Hassan were present, among others.

Representatives of the National Board of Revenue, handloom entrepreneurs and handloom associations of various districts were also present.​

 

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Tarique pledges to export handloom goods worldwide if elected

BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman has pledged to take Bangladesh’s handloom products to global markets, saying his party would launch export initiatives for the sector if it forms the government. Speaking at an election rally at the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) Indus

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Tarique pledges to export handloom goods worldwide if elected

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Jan 31, 2026 18:01
Updated :
Jan 31, 2026 18:24

BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman has pledged to take Bangladesh’s handloom products to global markets, saying his party would launch export initiatives for the sector if it forms the government.

Speaking at an election rally at the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) Industrial Park in Sirajganj on Saturday afternoon, Tarique said Sirajganj and Pabna naturally come to mind when people think of handloom fabrics, lungis and colours, as a large number of residents in the region are directly involved in the industry, bdnews24.com reports.

“We talk about handloom, we talk about lungis, we talk about colours -- and immediately Sirajganj and Pabna come before our eyes. Many people in this area are involved in the handloom industry,” he said.

“If we can undertake proper plans for this handloom industry, then, God willing, we will be able to spread the products made here across the globe,” he said.

“Going forward, that is what we want to do -- we want to export handloom products produced in Sirajganj and Pabna to the entire world,” Tarique added.

He said he could have criticised political rivals during the rally, which would have drawn applause, but questioned whether that would benefit people.

“Bangladeshis now want to know which political party has what plans for the country and its people, so the nation can move forward,” he said.

Referring to recent political change, he said: “We have protested, we have struggled, our leaders, activists and the people of Bangladesh have sacrificed their lives, and autocracy has fallen.

“Now we must build the country -- everyone must work together.”

He also promised to establish new industrial parks across Sirajganj, Pabna and nationwide to tackle unemployment, set up agriculture-based industries in the region, and establish vocational institutes.

The rally began at 3pm with Quran recitation. Tarique reached Sirajganj by road from Bogura around 3:30pm.​