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Production of goods in large quantities afterprocessing from raw materials to morevaluable products is called manufacturing. Doyou know that paper is manufactured fromwood, sugar from sugarcane, iron and steelfrom iron ore and aluminium from bauxite?Do you also know that some types of clothesare manufactured from yarn which itself is anindustrial product?People employed in the secondary activitiesmanufacture the primary materials intofinished goods. The workers employed in steelfactories, car, breweries, textile industries,bakeries etc. fall into this category. Some peopleare employed in providing services. In thischapter, we are mainly concerned withmanufacturing industries which fall in thesecondary economic strength of a country ismeasured by the development ofmanufacturing OF MANUFACTURINGM anufacturing sector is considered the backboneof development in general and economicdevelopment in particular mainly because Manufacturing industries not only help inmodernising agriculture, which forms thebackbone of our economy, they also reducethe heavy dependence of people onagricultural income by providing them jobsin secondary and tertiary sectors.

in the private sector and the rest in the public and cooperative sectors. Apart from these, there are several thousand small factories with four to ten looms. In the early years, the cotton textile industry was concentrated in the cotton growing belt of Maharashtra and Gujarat. Availability of raw cotton, market, transport

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