8/21/2017 TRANSCAMPUS INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND STUDY GROUP - Journals http://www.transcampus.org/JORINDV9Jun2011/JournalsV9NO1Jun201148.html 1/5 spacer JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT VOLUME 9 NO 1, JUNE, 2011 KANO TEXTILE INDUSTRYAND THE GLOBALIZATION CRISIS Murtala Muhammad Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, Kano E-mail: mjmurtala@yahoo.com Abstract The primary concern of this paper is to look at how Africa Textile Manufacturers PLC (ATM) and Terytex Nigeria Limited (TNL) survived the extreme adversity of globalization. The point is to discuss how these manufacturing concerns make progress when faced with profound crisis and “drastic changes in the macro-economic policy environment including externally imposed policies”. In this respect the focus is on industrial survival. The data were collected using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The former were collected through interviews while the latter were collected via structured questionnaire and documents. The main finding of the study is that the few textile concerns that managed to survive achieved that due to managerial competence and technical capability. The research recommended that government had to wake up to its responsibilities to provide infrastructure and make policies to sustain the textile industry. Keywords: Globalization, textile, crisis, survival Introduction This study discussed the strategies pursued by African Textile Manufacturers (ATM) and Terytex Nigeria Limited (TNL), both Kano textile companies in dealing with globalization crisis faced by the companies. The globalization crisis had serious consequences for capacity utilization; production; employment strength; availability of funds; raw materials, and spare parts. The crisis precipitated by neo-liberal policies broke boarders for free flow of textile materials threatening the existence of textile companies (Muhammad, 2010). Nigeria once had one of the finest and most vibrant textile industries in the world. At its peak in the 1980s, the industry was at that time a huge foreign exchange earner and is at its very worst in the third millennium. With the existing industrial collapse, idle investment, and mass unemployment and de-skilling, Nigeria is certainly not part of the race for the club of 20 leading economies in 10 years time, not to talk of being one of the 20 leading economies. Nigerian textile companies are closing down like never before in history; the crisis is of disaster proportions. Its current level is capable of wiping out or destroying all textile industries left. While some had already closed down altogether others are epileptically operating. Workers are sent on compulsory leave to face great uncertainty. As technologically advanced countries achieved unprecedented rapid textile development, technologically less developed states were faced with overwhelming problems in the absence of industrialization (Andrea and Beckman, 1999). The economic measures pushed by an advanced state of technology became more intense; curtailing production, cutting jobs, increasing the prices of raw materials (cotton and spare parts) diesels, petrol and black oil, introducing unfavourable financial 363