{"id":61673,"date":"2021-11-20T04:39:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T04:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=61673"},"modified":"2021-11-20T04:39:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T04:39:51","slug":"distribution-of-cotton-textile-industries-part-1-upsc-daily-important-topic-20-november-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/distribution-of-cotton-textile-industries-part-1-upsc-daily-important-topic-20-november-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"DISTRIBUTION OF COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRIES [ PART &#8211; 1]: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 20 November 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><strong>\u25a1\u00a0 Maharashtra<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c7\u00a0 Top position with respect to the cotton textile industry for a pretty long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c7\u00a0 Mumbai had been holding the prestigious position with as many as 65 mills out of a total of 122 mills in MH. It was rightly called the cotton polis of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u25a1\u00a0 Following factors favored the development of cotton textile in Mumbai:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Humid climate is helpful because the thread does not break so frequently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp; Mumbai is a very important port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Cheap hydroelectricity is readily available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp; The black-cotton soil in the hinterland of Mumbai provides cotton as the basic raw material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp; Cheap labour from the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Ready market for Mumbai products both in India and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Mumbai is well\u2013connected by a network of roads and railways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp; Facilities for washing and dyeing also exist here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp; No dearth of capital inputs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp; Advantage of an early start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c7\u00a0\u00a0 Apart from Mumbai, Solapur, Pune, Kolhapur, Satara, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u25a1\u00a0 Maharashtra \u25c7\u00a0 Top position with respect to the cotton textile industry for a pretty long time. \u25c7\u00a0 Mumbai had been holding the prestigious position with as many as 65 mills out of a total of 122 mills in MH. It was rightly called the cotton polis of India. \u25a1\u00a0 Following factors favored the development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":61674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755],"tags":[1797],"class_list":["post-61673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upsc-important-topics","tag-upsc-daily-important-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61675,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61673\/revisions\/61675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}