Josephine Christopher is a senior business journalist for The Citizen and Mwananchi newspapers
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Dar es Salaam. Once a vibrant industrial pillar, Tanzania’s textile industry is now witnessing a disheartening contraction, marked by plummeting production, factory closures and increasing investor discouragement.
From 53 million square metres of textile output in 2020 to just 32 million in 2024, the sector has shed nearly 40 percent of its production capacity in four years, according to the latest Tanzania in Figures report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
