To be assured of production in the context of the current unpredictable Covid-19 epidemic, the key issue of the textile industry is still vaccinating workers.
Currently, the implementation of prolonged social distancing in many provinces and cities is greatly affecting the business results of textile and garment enterprises. Currently, the rate of factories having to close has reached 35% due to insufficient funds to implement "3 on-site". In a positive scenario, if Covid-19 is controlled by the end of August 2021, the turnover will be Exports of the industry in 2021 only reached 33 billion USD, completing 84% of the whole year plan.
According to the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS), even if businesses have orders until the end of the third quarter or even the end of this year, many localities currently practice social distancing, which affects the the travel, transportation of goods between localities, factories.
The shortage of labor force greatly affects the production lines of textile and garment enterprises.
In addition, the stability of the labor force is also being affected, especially when the textile and garment industry has a large workforce, which can affect the production lines of factories, thereby affecting the health and safety of enterprises. labor productivity as well as delivery schedule.
Ms. Hoang Ngoc Anh, General Secretary of VITAS, said that in the last months of 2021, the textile and garment industry will face many challenges. The outbreak of Covid-19 in the southern region may disrupt the supply chain, as businesses cannot transport raw materials and lack human resources to ensure on-time delivery.
“Delivery pressure while the supply chain is broken is a big challenge for textile enterprises at the moment. If the delivery time is not met, the customer will request to cancel the order and the effect will last until 2022. No orders, no production, no revenue, and no employees. and ensuring a safe life for workers will be a great pressure for the economy and society," warned Ms. Anh.
Practical suggestions
In order to support textile enterprises to restore production soon, Mr. Truong Van Cam, Vice President of VITAS suggested, in addition to early vaccination for workers, the Government cut costs to facilitate production and business. of enterprises. For example, with the warehouses of logistics enterprises, processing agricultural, forestry and fishery products and some industries with export turnover of more than 1 billion USD in 2020, VITAS proposed to reduce the electricity price by 30% for customers. until the end of 2021.
In addition, according to Mr. Truong Van Cam, the association also continued to recommend Hai Phong city to stop collecting seaport fees until December 31, 2021 and study a 50% reduction for 2022; Ho Chi Minh City postpones the application of port fees until June 30, 2022. The reason given is that currently, businesses are facing a lot of difficulties, while Hai Phong has collected from January 1, 2017 up to now. As for Ho Chi Minh City, which is the center of import and export goods transportation of the southern provinces, it is implementing distance according to Directive 16/CT-TTg of the Prime Minister.
Along with that, VITAS proposed the State Bank to direct the banking system not to lower credit limits for businesses facing difficulties due to Covid-19; continue to reduce lending interest rates from 0.5 - 1%/year and extend the repayment period of principal and interest for 2021 and 2022. Localities do not adjust land rental prices, in the condition that businesses have to struggle against translate and research to reduce land rent by 50% for enterprises in localities applying Directive 16/CT-TTg.
The textile and garment industry faces the challenge of a labor shortage and the vaccination rate for the industry remains low.
Another big challenge is that the production focus of Vietnam's textile and garment industry is in the South, but currently the vaccination rate of the textile industry in this region in particular and the entire textile industry is very low. For the current situation, if workers are not vaccinated, it will disrupt supply and disrupt the production chain of Vietnam's textile and garment industry to the world.
Information from VITAS also said that the opportunity at the end of the year will still be there because many Indian garment factories have to close, or only operate at 50% capacity to prevent new Covid-19 infections. Myanmar's textile and garment industry faces two major problems at the same time: the increasing number of Covid-19 infections and the unstable political situation. Textile enterprises are currently receiving many orders from US and EU customers...
However, Vietnam's textile and garment industry faces the challenge of labor shortage and the vaccination rate for the industry is still low. In the positive scenario, if the Covid-19 epidemic is controlled by the end of August 2021, the number of workers is expected to reach only 65% and the shortage of human resources will be a big challenge for the industry in the third quarter of 2021. Therefore, to be assured of production in the context of the current unpredictable Covid-19 epidemic, the key issue of the textile and garment industry is still vaccinating workers.
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