Textile Industry

• Silk industry
• Jute industry
• Handicraft industry
  

Advantages and Limitations of Textile Industry

Indian textile industries enjoy certain favorable factors which contribute in retaining its leading position in national and international scenario. These factors can be fully utilized to ensure further growth and development.

• Large raw material base including cotton , wool , silk , jute and other man made fibers.
• Huge capacity of production
• Easy accessibility to large scale skilled man power
• Entrepreneurship
• Flexible production process
• But there are certain limitations as well which constrict the pace of growth in textile sector.
• The whole industry is split up
• Cotton quality
• Limitation and hazards in procedure of processing
• Labor reform problems
• Infrastructural limitations and bottlenecks

Major products of textile industries

• Awnings, textile
• Blankets
• Bags or sacks, textile
• Blinds, textile
• Canvas goods, textile
• Fabrics, textile
• Felts ( except floor coverings)
• Glass fiber fabric
• Household linen
• Lace
• Narrow fabric
• Netting, textile
• Piece goods
• Ropes (except wire ropes)
• Sail cloth
• Sewing thread
• String
• Tarpaulin
• Thread
• Towels
• Trimmings, textile
• Yarns
• Main aspects of Textile industry
• Textile apparel which includes clothing and garment
• Textile fabric
• Fibers, yarns and threads
• Textile chemical
• Textile products
• Textile machinery
• Textile services

Considering the significance and contribution of textile sector in national economy, initiative and efforts are being made to take urgent and adequate steps to attract investment and encourage wide spread development and growth in this sector.