Garment industry in Bangladesh

Like other 3rd world countries,Bangladesh is also a developing country.Her economic development depends firstly on agriculture and secondly on industry.Although Bangladesh is not developed in industry,she had been enriched in garment industries in the recent past years.In the field of industrialization,garment industry is a promising step.It has given the opportunity of employment to millions of unemployed,specially innumerable uneducated women of the country.It is making significant contribution to the field of our export income.The cloth industry of Bangladesh once achieved worldwide fame.Muslin and Jamdani cloth of our country were used as the luxurious garments of the royal figures in Europe and other countries.The British rulers in India did not develop our cloth industries at all.Rather they destroyed them and imported cloths from England.After the emergence of Bangladesh radical change has come to our garnent sector.Garment industries started working from the 70s of the late century.At present,there are about 3000 garment industries in the country and 75 per cent of them are in Dhaka.The rest are in Chittagong and Khulna.These industries have employed about fifty lakh of people and 85 per cent of them are illiterate rural women.About 76 per cent of our export earning comes from this sector.