Pest Control near Me

 

Pests are tiny insects that disturb humans and harm them in any way. They may be the tiny ants that eat their food or the bed bugs that live their lives on human blood. They may also be mice and rats which scare them and do harm to their homes and the disease-spreading cockroaches. There are many types of pests, some of which give direct harm to humans and some harm them indirectly. For this reason, everyone needs to find pest control near me to get rid of all the filthy pests.

Why do we need to get rid of pests?

The first thing is that these pests are filthy and seem dirty. They make the whole house dirty and take away the peace of the house. When you see tiny insects running here and there in the house, you become worried and they make the whole house dirty.

Secondly, these pests take away the peace of mind of the residents. When there are mice in the house, then the people are not able to sleep during the nights and the peace of their lives is gone. They get many mental illnesses and trouble with sleeping.

Third and foremost is that the tiny insects spread diseases and carry germs with them. They live in dirty places and make the whole house dirty with disease spreading bacteria. The people become ill and get diseased. The feces of many insects contain viruses and bacteria and many diseases are spread by these pests. Cockroaches spread the diseases of stomach, mice have long been known of spreading many viruses and other fatal diseases.

Fourth harm these rodents cause is that they damage the property and the place they live in. The carpenter ants destroy wooden furniture and wooden window-sills. Whereas, the mice and rats destroy clothes, paper and even electrical wiring and other equipment. The ants get into the walls and ceilings and destroy them from within.

Another harm that they cause is that they eat up the food and other eatables from everywhere in the house. The ants attack the sweet things and grains, while cockroaches invade the kitchen during the night and eat up almost everything. These insects all come for food items and eat everything they find, emptying and destroying the stock of the house and causing much damage to the property causing a loss of money.

All these factors make it necessary to get some pest control near me service in order to get rid of these pests. This will ensure you to live a peaceful and healthy life, away from the disease-spreading pests and the nerve-disturbing rodents.

Ways to get rid of the pests

There are a lot of ways that can prove beneficial in getting rid of these insects. Some are old methods used for centuries, but still proving beneficial in killing these insects.

The first one is using insecticides and pesticides. These can be sprayed in different suspicious places and solid pesticides can be placed in dark places of the home. A thing to keep in mind is that the pesticides that should be used must be manufactured lately, as the old medicines no longer work on the cunning pests.

The best way is to keep the house clean and to clean the dark places of the house from time to time. This will help in a way that the pests won’t come to the house as they live in dirt.

The most efficient and effective way is to get the professional pest control near me service from Installmart to help you to get rid of the insects. They device the latest techniques and use the lately developed pesticides that would work for sure. Make your life peaceful by the pest control service and get rid of the pests in your house for good.

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Clothes are the most bought item in the world and if clothes are ready made then they are much preferred from other varieties. Basically the ready made garments are the mass that are produced from the finished textile products industry of clothing. Ready made clothes are usually made from many different fabrics and yarns that are very important for the best look of ready made garments.

The characteristics of the ready made clothes depend on the fiber that is used in their manufacturer process. Mostly ready made garments can be divided into many different types that are outer clothing and under clothing. Outer clothing can be classified as uniform wear, sports wear that includes dresses, pants, suits, blazers, blouses, cardigans, jackets, coats, skirts, long and short sleeved shirts etc.

On the other hand under clothing can be classified as lingerie, jersey goods that includes underpants, undershirts, briefs, socks, stocking and panty house etc. Ready made garments are transported to other cities with the help of trucks. All the outer clothing are always carried as hanging garments but on the other hand all other ready made clothing items are transported in folding cartoons.

Ready made garments industry is the most demanding industry in all over the world. If you really want to start ready made business then find a suitable location in the shopping malls or in cloth bazaar because location matters the most. The business of ready made garments always needs big investment to start the ready made business successfully. You can easily start ready made business if you have better experience in the field of ready made garments.   

Pakistan’s garment industry

Avais Mazhar Hus­sain, the CEO of Angora Tex­tiles, gave a pre­sen­ta­tion at NIPA to gov­ern­ment pol­icy mak­ers on the state of gar­ment indus­try. He stressed an urgent need for human resource devel­op­ment and course cor­rec­tion in gov­ern­ment poli­cies to stop the progress of the sud­den decline in Pak­istani apparel indus­try in post quota 2005.

GLOBAL APPAREL TRADE AND PAKISTAN

“Sil­ver fiber is the sil­ver lin­ing to the dark clouds of poverty engulf­ing Pak­istan,” he said in his open­ing state­ment. “Our fab­ric pro­cess­ing is poor. If we look at cap­i­tal invest­ment ratio, China is 28% of total global apparel mar­ket. Pak­istan is the strongest in com­par­i­son, about 20% for USA in cat­e­gory 338 men’s knit­ted apparel and 339 – women’s knit­ted apparel alone.”

“Under WTO regime, the apparel indus­try is going down in Pak­istan,” he said as he explained the global tex­tile trade, walk­ing the audi­ence through the facts and fig­ures on global apparel and tex­tiles in com­par­i­son to Pak­istan. The world pro­duced 165 bil­lions in tex­tile goods, 225 bil­lions in apparel, total­ing 390 bil­lion dol­lars worth of tex­tile and apparel goods. He dis­cussed Pakistan’s tex­tile exports by cat­e­gory in the year 2004 and 2005, cit­ing fig­ures he remarked that Pakistan’s tex­tiles indus­try is doing well in the global mar­ket place if you just look at exports of raw mate­ri­als — cot­ton, cot­ton yarn, unprocessed fab­rics (knit­ted and woven), and home tex­tiles but the apparel busi­ness is not doing as well as expected or as it should from the per­spec­tive of a indige­nous cot­ton pro­duc­ing coun­try. “Even Bangladesh has become a bet­ter player than Pak­istan – the sequence of apparel export reads now as fol­lows: China ($43,010 Mil­lion), India ($ 5,467 Mil­lion), Bangladesh ($3,579 mil­lion) and Pak­istan ($ 2,172 mil­lion),” he said.

Bangladesh’s rank­ing seems sur­pris­ing since it’s not a cot­ton pro­duc­ing coun­try and has to import raw mate­ri­als like fab­ric from Pak­istan, India and China for their apparel indus­try. Pakistan’s total tex­tile exports includ­ing all sec­tors like yarn (45.51%), cot­ton cloth (40%), bed linen (42.36%), woven gar­ments (65.54%), and knitwear (26.33%) in the period of July 2004 to August 2005 grew by 13.4% but knitwear in the period of Jan­u­ary to June 2005 declined by 5%. Explain­ing these fig­ures, he said, it was a “Sad reflec­tion on the indus­try, gov­er­nance, and the coun­try.”

MARKET SEGMENTATION AND PAKISTAN’S QUOTA POLICY

Dis­cussing the cus­tomer mar­ket seg­men­ta­tion, he explained that Pak­istan was com­pet­ing at the low end of the mar­ket only. “Pak­istan is ide­ally suited for mar­ket seg­ments 3 & 4 (depart­men­tal stores and mass mar­ket retail chains), since Lahore and Faisal­abad have ver­ti­cally inte­grated indus­try, how­ever, Pak­istan is oper­at­ing at 6 and 5 (mass retail chains and dis­count chain stores), par­tially at 3 & 4 (first tier spe­cialty shops and bet­ter depart­ment stores),” he said.

Explain­ing the rea­son for the industry’s move in this direc­tion, he cited government’s quota pol­icy. “Back in 1991, the quota was awarded on per­for­mance and value. In 1994, gov­ern­ment changed it back to per­for­mance. The aver­age price in 1994 was $48 per dozen. In 2004, it was $40 per dozen. This pol­icy change affected our per­for­mance – it forced the exporters to pur­sue low priced, high vol­ume sup­ply strat­egy– from com­pet­ing with mid­dle tier sup­pli­ers: Hong Kong, Turkey, Egypt, Korea, Tai­wan, Indone­sia, Malaysia, it made them com­pete with the low end — main land China, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Bangladesh. The gov­ern­ment was entirely respon­si­ble, since if you give a cer­tain direc­tion, the exporters have no choice but to com­ply.”

PAKISTAN’S INDUSTRIAL STRENTHS AND WEAKNESSES

Dis­cussing Pakistan’s strengths, he said, “Pak­istan has abun­dant sup­ply of cheap labor, a well devel­oped spin­ning indus­try and avail­abil­ity of raw mate­ri­als. Even though Pakistan’s labor cost is $0.38 per hour, (Ger­many has the high­est labor cost in the world, in spite of high costs, their growth rate in the first 7 months of 2005 was 16% and Italy was 6%), this cost advan­tage is almost nul­li­fied by an undis­ci­plined and unpro­duc­tive labor force,” he said.

Dis­cussing Pakistan’s indus­try weak­nesses, he said, “We cater to the low end of the global mar­ket because of skill defi­cien­cies in man­u­fac­tur­ing and design, fur­ther­more, we have to con­tend with poor coun­try image. It’s a des­per­ate sit­u­a­tion. The weak­est link in our value chain is dye­ing and fab­ric pro­cess­ing. You can’t find a sin­gle dye­ing technician/Chemist in Pak­istan who can dye poly­ester and span­dex (Lycra) sat­is­fac­to­rily. We have bet­ter equip­ment than China and India. Gar­ment tech­nol­ogy is a proper sci­ence. India pro­duces indus­trial sci­en­tists in fif­teen months flat since they have schools that offer indus­trial train­ing. In Pak­istan, totally clue­less peo­ple are lead­ing the fac­to­ries fab­ric pro­cess­ing facil­i­ties. Some of our tech­ni­cians do not even know how to use hydro­gen per­ox­ide for exam­ple!

We have had to import ex-patriots to sort these prob­lems out and do cross train­ing in our fac­tory. Find­ing them is not a prob­lem, mov­ing them to Pak­istan is a prob­lem, they don’t stay long– any­way, one of the ex-pats, a Span­ish gen­tle­man, con­ducted a study in our fac­tory for me, only 48% of the gar­ments being pro­duced were first time right. 52% is a high rejec­tion rate, con­sid­er­ing Angora is an approved source for many first tier cus­tomers. Our dye-houses are one of the most expen­sive facil­i­ties in terms of costs in the world. We have the state of art com­put­er­ized machin­ery but what can tech­nol­ogy do if you don’t have qual­i­fied tech­ni­cians to run your machines? We need to set up schools urgently; invest­ment must be done in this area. There is an urgent need to develop our human resources.

Even though, our woven indus­try is grow­ing right now, after 9/11 inci­dent, the knitwear indus­try is steadily going down­hill. We can not rule out the same pos­si­bil­ity for our woven indus­try. Gar­ment tech­nol­o­gists and indus­trial sci­en­tists are needed urgently by the knitwear and woven apparel indus­try. We must strengthen our man­u­fac­tur­ing and design capa­bil­i­ties. Our sewing tech­nol­ogy is twenty years behind Sri Lanka. On the design front, we are no where. Pak­istan School of fash­ion Design (PSFD) is a good school but its out­put and con­tri­bu­tion in the indus­try is com­par­a­tively very low, since its estab­lish­ment in 1998, it is only pro­duc­ing 18 stu­dents per year,” he said.

“Indus­try is being dri­ven by indi­vid­u­als. We need to make an effort at the macro level,” he said. “One of the pio­neer­ing knitwear plants in Lahore closed down last week. Other fac­to­ries will soon fol­low in its wake if steps are not taken to cor­rect these issues by the gov­ern­ment pol­icy mak­ers. By the end of the year, one third of the peo­ple will be unem­ployed in the tex­tile sec­tor of Knitwear alone because of large scale fac­tory shut downs. Cur­rently the apparel sec­tor employs 300,000 peo­ple in US$ 1.5 bil­lion indus­try,” he said.
Expand­ing on the poor coun­try image, he read out an excerpt from the let­ter sent by MOD’SPE Paris to PSFD.

“Pak­istan has the image of a some­what unsta­ble coun­try suf­fer­ing from inter­nal ten­sions and con­fronta­tions, relayed by the West­ern media. This does not help the influx of buy­ers into the coun­try and can hin­der the pur­chase of “Made in Pak­istan” cloth­ing by West­ern con­sumers. This is notably not the case for India, a coun­try per­ceived as peace­ful and open, and which enjoys a good image with buy­ers & styl­ists all over the world. India is con­se­quently con­sid­ered as a coun­try of inspi­ra­tion, ideal for sourc­ing. To con­clude, it appears that Pak­istan is no longer well placed in terms of value for money. This is espe­cially sig­nif­i­cant as its posi­tion­ing is on the prod­ucts where the price fac­tor is all impor­tant in the pur­chas­ing deci­sion: Basic Prod­ucts, Sports­wear and Cot­ton Jean­swear.”

MOD’SPE PARIS
28/07/2005

PAKISTAN’S GOAL
“Pak­istan ought to be the cloth­ier of the world in the middle/upper seg­ments of the global mar­ket­place,” he said. “Pakistan’s biggest asset is its loca­tion at the meet­ing place of the Indian and middle-eastern cul­tures. In a world where authen­tic­ity is increas­ingly sought after, Pak­istan should have a bright future if it can build on its iden­tity and pro­pose brand alter­na­tives inspired by this iden­tity,” he said.

“India has 100 per­cent indus­trial growth, tex­tiles is one of their lead­ing indus­tries, pre­cisely because India’s coun­try image is bet­ter in com­par­i­son to Pak­istan. Their tourist indus­try is thriv­ing too. Our port behav­ior leaves much to be desired. Buy­ers don’t come to Pak­istan. We have to meet our buy­ers in some neu­tral ter­ri­tory like Hong Kong or Sin­ga­pore each time they visit this part of the world. Con­vinc­ing them to come to Pak­istan is non-starter. There is a travel advi­sory on Pak­istan. If some buyer comes to Pak­istan, they are harassed by the port offi­cials. It’s a sad story,” he said relat­ing cou­ple of anec­dotes on buy­ers’ recent vis­its to Pak­istan.

“Cus­tomers require value for money; unfor­tu­nately, Pak­istan is fail­ing to pro­vide a viable value propo­si­tion to its cus­tomers,” he said in con­clu­sion.

First pub­lished in the print edi­tion, The Knit-Xtyle Fash­ion Review, issue 13, 2006