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AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Eldoret-based Rift Valley Textiles (Rivatex) is now spreading its wings to Nyanza region.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s business entry into Nyanza is set to revive cotton growing in the region and provide employment opportunities to over 3,000 people.<\/p>\n

It will set its first factory at Boya in Nyando, Kisumu County.Senior officials\u00a0from the firm toured the proposed 2.5-acre site for the new factory, where they held discussions with area MP Jared Okello and other local leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be our first tailoring section outside the company,\u201d\u00a0Rivatex\u00a0Factory Manager Richard Tanui said.With the construction of the tailoring section at Nyando, there are high hopes that cotton farming in the region that stopped with the death of Kisumu Cotton Mills (Kicomi) in the 1990s will be revived.<\/p>\n

The tailoring section in Nyando Sub-county will be involved in stitching garments as apparel making will be done in their main offices in Eldoret.Mr Okello stated that in collaboration with the national government and the county government,\u00a0Rivatex\u00a0had set prefabs in the area that would take a few days to be completed.Mr Tanui said the factory was set to open other tailoring sections in other counties to create employment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are currently making over 20,000 metres of fabric and in that value addition we want to explore ways of creating employment across the country,\u201d Tanui said.The Eldoret-based factory, which has a capacity of using up to 70 bales of cotton a day, cited a shortage of the commodity and urged the government and the county governments to encourage residents to start growing it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not have enough cotton in Kenya and the cotton we use is not enough to run\u00a0Rivatex,\u201d Tanui said.Okello urged residents to start growing cotton, adding that testing of cotton that would produce better yields would be put in place.Tanui did not give details about the project and its cost. \u201cWe are yet to get the details of the project; other details will come as we continue,\u201d Tanui said.<\/p>\n

Nyando Assistant County Commissioner Jacinta Ogada appealed to youth and parents to change their perceptions and take their children to polytechnics, which would provide them with skills to apply for opportunities at the factory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Kenya: Eldoret-based Rift Valley Textiles (Rivatex) is now spreading its wings to Nyanza region. The company\u2019s business entry into Nyanza is set to revive cotton growing in the region and provide employment opportunities to over 3,000 people. It will set its first factory at Boya in Nyando, Kisumu County.Senior officials\u00a0from the firm toured the proposed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[3874,3165,3873,3875],"class_list":["post-8663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-rift","tag-rivatex","tag-textile-industry","tag-valley-textiles-nyanza"],"yoast_head":"\nRivatex spreads its wings to Nyanza - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Eldoret-based Rift Valley Textiles (Rivatex) is now spreading its wings to Nyanza region.The company\u2019s business entry into Nyanza is set to revive\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/rivatex-spreads-its-wings-to-nyanza\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rivatex spreads its wings to Nyanza\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eldoret-based Rift Valley Textiles (Rivatex) is now spreading its wings to Nyanza region.The company\u2019s business entry into Nyanza is set to revive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/rivatex-spreads-its-wings-to-nyanza\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-29T19:49:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/rivatex_spreads_its_5ecff9732cc55.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/rivatex-spreads-its-wings-to-nyanza#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/rivatex-spreads-its-wings-to-nyanza\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rivatex spreads its wings to Nyanza\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-29T19:49:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/rivatex-spreads-its-wings-to-nyanza\"},\"wordCount\":375,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/rivatex-spreads-its-wings-to-nyanza#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/rivatex_spreads_its_5ecff9732cc55.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Rift\",\"Rivatex\",\"Textile Industry\",\"Valley Textiles Nyanza\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/rivatex-spreads-its-wings-to-nyanza#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/rivatex-spreads-its-wings-to-nyanza\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/rivatex-spreads-its-wings-to-nyanza\",\"name\":\"Rivatex spreads its wings to Nyanza - 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