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Describe the problems of agro-based industries in India in general and cotton textiles in particular.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Industry

Agro-based industries — cotton and jute textiles, sugar, vegetable oil, food processing — take their raw material from the farm and inherit its uncertainties as industrial risk. The difficulties are structural, not managerial.

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  • The Raw Material Is Itself the First Problem
  • Structural Weakness of the Units
  • Weak Backward Linkage and Manufactured Demand
  • Cotton Textiles in Particular
  • Verdict

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