explain the factors that affect the location of industries. why is manufacturing sector considered as the back bone of econmic development? explain.
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- Industrial locations are complex in nature. These are influenced by the availability of many factors. Some of them are: raw material, land, water, labor, capital, power, transport, and market. For ease of convenience, we can classify the location factors into two: geographical factors and non-geographical factors.
- The manufacturing sector is considered as the backbone of the economic development of the country because of the following reasons:
- (i) Manufacturing sector helps in modernising agriculture which increases agricultural productivity.
- (ii) It reduces poverty as well as unemployment from the country.
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