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    CHALLENGES OF GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC REFORM POLICY ON TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN KADUNA STATE
    (Department of Political Science, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2021-10-10) Arima, Monday; Yahaya, Abdullahi Adadu; Ajeh, Philip; Muhammad, Bello Baban'umma
    The paper examined the problems faced by textile industry in Kaduna State since the democratic dispensation of government spamming the period 1999-2021. Challenges that affected the local textile production were identified and discussed. These problems include globalization oj textile goods, smuggling of textile goods, unfavorable economic policies, inadequate power supply, financial challenge and inadequate textile materials e.t.c. Also, the article identified some reforms measures taken by past administrations to reviving the ailing textile industiy. The sources of data for the study are mainly secondary (quantitative method) and dependency and liberal economic theories were adopted to explain how developed capitalist helped in underdeveloped textile factories in Kaduna State. The article also used quantitative method .The paper revealed that textile factories in Kaduna State has the potentialities to contribute profitably to human capacity development, revenue generation and to sustain National economy The paper recommends that for textile industiy in Kaduna to resume back to business, government should provide grants immediately to farmers to start cotton production, power sector should be restructure to ensure 24 hours supply, re-introduction of measures to regulate the importation of foreign textile goods, Nigeria Custom Sen'ice should re-double her efforts in curtailing of smuggling of textile goods in to the country and lastly, sound industrial policies should be formulates and implements by government of the day.