Tag: industries of karnataka

• The Karnataka government had announced its policy Suvarna Vastra Neethi in 2008 for a period of five years.
• The investors are interested in investing in the areas of spinning, weaving, processing and manufacturing of technical textiles.
  

Mandya is called as Sugar City of Karnataka. Sugar factories contribute majorly to the economy of this district.

Karnataka Sugar Industry ranks 3rd in terms of its contribution of sugar in the total sugar production in the country. 

The first sugar factory in Karnataka was established in 1933. Since then there has been a steady growth of the industry and Karnataka has now emerged as one of the leading sugar producing states in the country.

Some cotton mills have been closed down more recently. The reasons for this are shortage of cotton, obsolete machines, lack of electricity supply, increasing production costs, stiff competition from synthetic fibre cloth etc.