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Overview of Small Scale Industries

Small scale industries are larger than cottage industries and use modern machines and paid labor. They produce goods like clothing, toys, furniture and food which provide important employment. Characteristics include being labor intensive, using raw materials, and producing handicrafts and textiles. Manila hemp is a strong fiber obtained from the abacá plant, used for rope, mats and paper. It is the most important cordage fiber and is grown mainly in the Philippines. Small scale industries face intense competition and the widening gap between rich and poor countries, making it harder for smaller businesses.

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Overview of Small Scale Industries

Small scale industries are larger than cottage industries and use modern machines and paid labor. They produce goods like clothing, toys, furniture and food which provide important employment. Characteristics include being labor intensive, using raw materials, and producing handicrafts and textiles. Manila hemp is a strong fiber obtained from the abacá plant, used for rope, mats and paper. It is the most important cordage fiber and is grown mainly in the Philippines. Small scale industries face intense competition and the widening gap between rich and poor countries, making it harder for smaller businesses.

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Small Scale Industries

By Adam, Tall Jenny and Reddygaru.


What are small scale industries?
• Small scale industries are differentiated from the former by
the technique of production. They use modern power driven
machines and employ labor as well. The raw materials are
also obtained from outside, if not available locally. These
industries are larger in size than cottage industries. Their
products are sold through traders beyond local markets. In
many developing countries, the role of these industries are
crucial as they provide employment to a large number of
people. In countries like India and China, a large number of
goods such as clothes, toys, furniture, edible oil and leather
goods are produced by small scale industries.
What are the characteristics?
• Small scale industries are more often than not,
labor intensive.
• They use lots of raw materials.
• The typical end product of small scale
industries are handicrafts, textiles, carpets,
silks and ceramics.
Manila hemp
• Manila hemp, also known as Manila, is a type of fiber obtained
from the leaves of the abacá (Musa textilis), a relative of
the banana. It is mostly used for pulping for a range of uses,
including specialty papers. It was once used mainly to
make Manila rope, but this is now of minor importance. Manila
envelopes and Manila papers take their name from this fiber.
• The packaging of Manila hemp (Musa textiles) into bales at Kali
Telepak, Besoeki, East Java.
• It is not actually hemp, but named so because hemp was long a
major source of fiber, and other fibers were sometimes named
after it. The name refers to the capital of the Philippines, one of
the main producers of abacá.
• Manila hemp the most important of the cordage fibers. It is obtained chiefly
from the Manila hemp plant (Musa textilis ) of the family Musaceae
( banana family). It is grown mainly in its native Philippine Islands, where it has
been cultivated since the 16th cent. and is known as abacá. The abacá is in no
way related to the true hemp; it is of the same genus as the common banana,
which it closely resembles except for the inedible fruit. At maturity the plants
are cut down, and the long fibers are taken from overlapping leaves that
converge at the base to form a false stem. The fibers are exceptionally strong
and durable. The coarser ones are used for binder twine, matting, and rope,
particularly marine cordage because of their resistance to the action of
saltwater; the finer grades are woven into beautiful native fabrics and hemp
hats. Manila paper is made chiefly from old Manila hemp ropes and is valuable
as a strong wrapping paper. Manila hemp is classified in the
division Magnoliophyta , class Liliopsida, order Zingiberales, family Musaceae.
Disadvantages of small scale industries
• 1. Intense Competition 

• 2. Widening of Gap between rich and poor


countries 

• 3. Harder for Smaller businesses to establish


themselves 
The advantages

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