Manufacturing Industries Test - 7

Manufacturing industries not only help in modernising agriculture, which forms the backbone of our economy, they also reduce the heavy dependence of people on agricultural income by providing them jobs in secondary and tertiary sectors.The secondary sector includes secondary processing of raw materials, food manufacturing, textile manufacturing andindustry.

Cotton, jute, silk, woollen textiles, sugar and edible oil, etc. industries are based on agricultural raw materials.Raw material for textile indstry comes naturally either from plants or animals.

In 2005, National Jute Policy was formulated with the objective of increasing productivity, improving quality, ensuring good prices to the jute farmers and enhancing the yield per hectare.The National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP) of the Government, recognizing the importance of jute to farmers and workers, and to the economy of jute growing states, and its special ecological importance world-wide, resolved that "the jute industry will receive a fresh impetus in all respects".

The growing global concern for environment friendly,biodegradable materials, has once again opened the opportunity for jute products.

Regular supply of electricity and an assured source of raw material at minimum cost are the two prime factors for location of the industry.

A small scale industry is defined with reference to the maximum investment allowed on the assets of a unit. This limit has changed over a period of time. At present the maximum investment allowed is rupees one crore.Large industries have significant quantities of capital and employ lots of people. They also have a broad geographic reach or generate substantial volumes of revenue

Industrial locations are complex in nature. These are influenced by availability of raw material, labour, capital, power,market,transport faclities,availability of finance, climate   and  taxation etc. It is rarely possible to find all these factors available at one place.

In the early years, the cotton textile industry was concentrated in the cotton growing belt of Maharashtra and Gujarat.Both the states have a proper availability of cotton(raw material),climate and market to sell the finished product.

India has the second largest installed capacity of spindles in the world, with 43.13 million spindles (2011-12) after China.

In 2005, National Jute Policy was formulated with the objective of increasing productivity, improving quality, ensuring good prices to the jute farmers and enhancing the yield per hectare.The National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP) of the Government, recognizing the importance of jute to farmers and workers, and to the economy of jute growing states, and its special ecological importance world-wide, resolved that "the jute industry will receive a fresh impetus in all respects".