The Cotton/ Man-made fibre textile industry is the largest organized industry in the country in terms of employment (nearly 1 million workers) and number of units. Besides, there are a large number of subsidiary industries dependent on this sector, such as those manufacturing machinery, accessories, stores, ancillaries, dyes & chemicals. As on 31.10.2009, there were 1834 cotton/manmade fibre textile mills (non-SSI) in the country with an installed capacity of 37.07 million spindles, 4,89,718 rotors and 56,526 looms.
Textile production covering man-made fibre, filament yarn and spun yarn showed a minor setback in 2008-09. Man-made fibre production recorded a fall of about 15% and filament yarn production recorded a fall of about 6% during 2008-09. Blended and 100% noncotton yarn production recorded a fall of about 4% during 2008-09.
Cloth production by mill sector showed an increase of 1% during 2008-09.
During 2008-09 cloth production by handloom, power loom decreased by about 4% and 3%, hosiery sectors production increased by 2%. An overall cloth production decreased by about 2%
during 2008-09.www.hastshilpisamachar.com
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