Knitwear’s journey to become top RMG exporter

The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted garment export from all apparel-producing nations, but the case was different for Bangladesh. Most of the garment factories remained open during the whole pandemic. After remaining slow for a brief period, apparel shipment from Bangladesh continued rising and knitwear played the biggest role here too. Now knitwear is the biggest foreign currency earner for Bangladesh's garments sector. How did knitwear become Bangladesh's biggest garment exporter? Can knitwear maintain this rising export trend?

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