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1. Production of goods in large quantities after processing from raw materials to more valuable products is called manufacturing. Example: Paper is manufactured from wood, sugar from sugarcane, iron and steel from iron ore and aluminium from bauxite.
2. small scale industries have less capital and investment while large scale industries have huge capital and investment. ... - small scale industries employ less labourers and most work is done by manpower while in large scale industries most work is done by machines.
3. Manufacturing industries not only help in modernising agriculture, they also reduce the heavy dependence of people on agricultural income by providing them jobs in secondary and tertiary sectors. Industrial development is a precondition for eradication of unemployment and poverty from our country..
4. Agriculture and industry are not exclusive of each other.
They move hand in hand. The following examples support the statement.
(i) The agro-based industries have given a major boost to agriculture by raising its productivity.
(ii) The agro-based industries depend on agriculture for raw materials and sell their products such as fertilisers, insecticides, irrigation pumps, PVC pipes, machines and tools, etc to the farmers.
(iii) The industrial sector provides employment to the excess labour (labours who are actually disguised unemployed) in the agriculture sector.
Thus, development and competitiveness of manufacturing industry has not only assisted agriculturists in increasing their production but also made production process very efficient.
Thus, it can be concluded the agriculture and industy move hand-in-hand..
5. The cotton textile industry is the largest industry in India today. There are several reasons behind it. Three of them are given below:
(i) These are nearly 1600 cotton and human made fibre textile mills in the country. About 80% of these are in the private sector and the rest in the public and cooperative sectors. Apart from these, there are several thousand small factories with four to ten looms.
(ii) The industry by creating demands supports many other industries, such as,chemicals and dyes, mill stores, packaging materials and engineering works.
(iii) This industry has a close links with agriculture and provides a living to farmers,cotton boll pluckers and workers engaged in ginning, spinning, weaving,dyeing, designing, packaging, tailoring and sewing..