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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.

• The first successful textile mill was established in Mumbai in 1854. • The two world wars were fought in Europe, India was a British colony. There was a demand for cloth in U .K. hence, they gave a boost to the development of the cotton textile industry. As on 30 November 2011, there were 1946 cotton and human-made fibre textile milk in ...

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