INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS
Manipur
has made some progress in the setting up of small scale industrial units of which
some 7700 have been set up. A joint sector plant to manufacture drugs and
pharmaceuticals has been commissioned and electronic goods, Steel fabrication
articles and plastic goods are being produced in the state. A cement plant has
also come up in Manipur. Among other industries a spinning mill, a ghee
manufacturing unit and similar factories to make other consumer products have
been commissioned up to 2000AD and a profile of a number of
industries which could be set up in the state has been prepared.
Training
facilities have also been created to enable the young men and woman to acquire
technological capability and provide industries with ready made trained
man power. A centre for electronic design and technology and the
central institute of plastic Engineering and Technology have been set up at Imphal.
A
factory is already making colour and black and white, TV sets.
AGRICULTURE
Agriculture
and allied activities is the single largest source of livelihood of rural folk.
Paddy is the main crop grown. Manipuri rice is very sweet. It can be
eaten without curry. Other crops are wheat, pulses, maize etc. There
are two modes of cultivation viz, punghul and transplantation of seeds. In
the hill area Jhum and terraced cultivation are carried in the agricultural season.
In
general the land is cleared in the month of January and February. Crops are sown
in May-June and harvesting starts in October and ends about in the early part of December.
The soil is considered fit for all kinds of grain crops, vegetables and fruits.
Sirohee hill in Ukural is famous for the Sirohee lily. The species of
this plant is endemic to that particular hill only.
Fruits cultivated include pine-apple, arum, orange. In some areas of the valley
apricot, oranges, lemons and mangoes are also grown. Every kind of vegetables
like cabbage, carrot, radish, beetroot, turnip, ladies finger, pumpkin and
pulses are grown and the yield is very good. Vegetables also include chilly, potato, cabbage, pea, brinjal and tomato.
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