- Highly decentralized in India
- happened after Independence
- non-weight losing raw material based industry
Why decentralized?
- Market Expansion
- Transportation expansion
- Power looms
machines eliminated the requirement of skilled labour(hand-looms) that converted cotton threads ➡️fibres ➡️textile
- Electricity ➡️ omnipresent
- Artificial humidifiers
- requires electricity
- moist thread to make it elastic
- Govt. support
- Increase in cotton production
- high yielding varieties of cotton
Also refer: Shortcomings