Question
Name the two sectors of the cottage textile industries. How are they different?
Solution
Cotton textile industry in India can be divided into two sectors :
(i) the organised sector and
(ii) the decentralised sector.
The decentralised sector includes cloth produced in handlooms (including Khadi) and powerlooms. The production of the organised sector has drastically fallen from 81 per cent in the mid-twentieth century to only about 6 per cent in 2000. At present, the powerlooms on the decentralised sector produce more than 59 per cent and the handloom sector produces about 19 per cent of all cotton cloth produced in the country.
