Tag: cottage and small scale industries

The significant role played by jute in the country’s economy can be assessed from the fact that more than 4 million farm families are involved in jute farming and majority of them belong to small and marginal categories. Cultivation of jute generates employment (seasonal) of more than 10 million man days per season.

Four major shipbuilding centres in India are located at Vishakhapatnam, Kolkata, Kochi, and Mumbai. Hindustan Shipyard Ltd (HSL) and Cochin Shipyard Ltd. (CSL) are the well established public sector yards. It is a large and complicated industry which requires huge capital investment. 

Mazagaon Dock, Cochin Shipyard, Garden Reach Workshop,Hindustan Shipyard. Makes warships for the Indian Navy. It manufactures warships and submarines for the Indian Navy and offshore platforms and associated support vessels for offshore oil drilling.

Ahmedabad is located on the banks of the Sabarmati River, 30 km from the state capital Gandhinagar, which is its twin city. Ahmedabad has emerged as an important economic and industrial hub in India.

In simplified terms, the consumer industry  that produce goods for direct use by consumers, that means the finished goods by this industry can be directly used by consumers, for eg, toothpaste, paper, textiles, etc as opposed to the capital goods industry, which manufactures goods for sale to other companies.

Diversification includes two aspects -one relates to change in cropping pattern and the other relates to a shift of the workforce from agriculture to other allied activities (livestock, poultry, fisheries etc.) and non-agriculture sector.

As agriculture is already overcrowded, a major proportion of the increasing labour force needs to find alternate employment opportunities in other non-farm sectors. The non-farm economy has several segments in it providing ample opportunities.

Verghese Kurien, the chairman and founder of Amul, was named the chairman of NDDB which launched 'Operation Flood' by the then Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri. 

He gave the professional management skills and necessary thrust to the cooperative and is considered the architect of India's White Revolution (Operation Flood).

The dynamic sub-sectors to the agricultural sector include agro-processing industries, food processing industries, leather industry, tourism, etc.

As agriculture is already overcrowded, a major proportion of the increasing labour force needs to find alternate employment opportunities in other non-farm sectors. Non-farm economy has several segments in it - some possess dynamic linkages that permit healthy growth while others are in subsistence, low productivity propositions.

Those sectors which have the potential but seriously lack infrastructure and other support include traditional home-based industries like pottery, crafts, handlooms etc.

The IT has revolutionised many sectors in the Indian economy. There is broad consensus that IT can play a critical role in achieving sustainable development and food security in the twenty-first century. 

Governments can predict areas of food insecurity and vulnerability using appropriate information and software tools so that action can be taken to prevent or reduce the likelihood of an emergency.It also has a positive impact on the agriculture sector as it can disseminateinformation regarding emerging technologies and its applications, prices, weather and soil conditions for growing different crops etc. 

Though IT is, by itself, no catalyst for change it can act as a tool for releasing the creative potential and knowledge embedded in the society. It also has the potential of employment generation in rural areas.

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