Egypt aims to increase cotton gins capacity to 4.4 million kantars annually up from 1.5 million kantars, according to a government report issued.
A kantar is the official Egyptian weight unit for measuring cotton. It corresponds to the US hundredweight and is roughly equal to 99.05 pounds, or 45.02 kg. It is equal to either 157 kg of seed cotton or 50 kg of lint cotton.
The Egyptian government is trying to breathe a new life into the country’s textile industry, which contributes almost 3 percent to the gross domestic product, employs one-third of the industrial labor, and generates exports worth $2.6 billion annually.
