INDUSTRY
Maharashtra has made great studies in the industrial sphere with Bombay city
as the centre. The state accounts for 23% of the gross value of Industrial
output in the country. Maharashtra has had a great tradition in textiles an d
Bombay city was original home of India's textile mills and other centres of
weaving has come up like Malegaon and Bhewandi.
Sugar industry has made substantial progress specially in the co-operative
sector. Maharashtra is known for the development of sugar industry on
co-operative lines in which the formers acquire a share in the sugar mills, Pharmaceuticals,
petrochemicals, heavy chemicals, electronics, automobiles, engineering, food
processing, and plastics are some of the major industries of the state.
Maharashtra is noted for the production of 3 wheels, jeeps, commercial vehicles
and cars, synthetic fibers, and cold rolled products and industrial alcohol.
Small scale industries have also come up in a big way in the state.
MUMBAI DISTRICT:-
Mumbai is called as an industrial city.
Industrial development in the state is mainly concentrated in Mumbai.
It accounts the largest share in ten no: of factories textile
industries are mainly concentrated here. The six important industries in the
district are cotton, textiles, chemicals and chemical products, manufacture of
machinery and machine tools, electrical machinery, transport equipment and basic
metal and alloys industries. In addition to this is important small scale industries located in the
district are handloom, power loom, dyeing and printing, blacksmithing,
carpentry, pricks and tiles manufacturing, soap making etc. These industries
also provide employment to a considerable no: of persons in Mumbai
city.
AGRICULTURE
Although,
it is a highly indu strialized state of India, agriculture continues to be the
main occupation of the people. Principal crops include rice, Jowar, Bajra,
wheat, pulses, cotton, sugarcane, several oil seeds including groundnut,
sunflower and soybean, turmeric, onions and other vegetables. The state has
large areas, under fruit cultivation of which mangoes, bananas, grapes, and two
famous Nagpur oranges are the main ones. Not only the oranges of Bathplug have
earned a name for themselves but the juicy Alphonso mangoes and the grapes being
cultivated in Nashik and other regions of the state have justify become well
known and earn considerable foreign exchange too. Irrigation facilities are
being extended so that agriculture could be made less dependant on rain water.
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