Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association (MGMA) partners with Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) to provide technical assistance to boost human resources in garment sector

Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association (MGMA) has partnered with JETRO (Yangon) and has kept opening MGHRDC in a bid to boost human resources in garment sector and provide technical assistance, according to the MGMA.
“The MGHRDC was established on March 25 in 2009 as a future task,” said a responsible person of the MGHRDC.
 The MGHRDC was jointly established by the MGMA and the JETRO and trainings on industrial engineering were conducted at garment factories through mobile system in 2009 and 2010. With the assistance of Myanmar Investment Commission and the Ministry of Industries, the center could be open.
The center provides the courses such as motor sewing, supervisor level IE, top management, sewing machine adjusting and turning technique, attachment, production management, basic garment inspection, high-class garment inspection, special sewing, needle and thread, seminar on garment and clothing quality promotion.
Garment export volume reached US$ 4.6 billion in 2018. Myanmar expects that garment export volume will reach US$ 10 billion in 2024, said Khine Khine Nwe, Secretary of the MGMA.
In our sector, the workers increase fivefold and income increases tenfold. We will try to double the production of the workers. For this we are making efforts, said Khine Khine New.
The garment industry is mostly in foreign investment sector in Myanmar. There are more than 500 members and more than 500,000 workers in MGMA.   

(Eleven Media Group: https://elevenmyanmar.com/news/mgma-and-jetro-partner-to-distribute-technical-assistance )

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