Economy
Kolhapur is the sixth most industrialised city in Maharashtra. It is the 10th city of choice in India by Deutsche Bank. Its sugar industries account to a significant share of sugar, jaggery and baggase produced in the country: Kolhapur district has 37 sugar factories. It is fast becoming an industrialized district as well and already a front‐runner in agro‐based industries. It is one of the shining examples in the co‐operative movement of India, with around 11,338 societies in the district.
- Kolhapur district has the largest number of bio-gas plants in India(97,000 plants overall) thus, winning the national award for consecutively 3 times.
- Shri Chhatrapati Shahu cooperative sugar factory in Kolhapur, has won the national award for being the best managed cooperative sugar factory in India for total 9 times.
- India's first biometric ATM : Warana co-op bank, Kolhapur has developed Maharashtra's as well as India's first biometric ATM which uses PALM VEIN AUTHENTICATION technology for ATM transactions.
- Yantra Maharshi Late Shri. Mahadeo Nana Shelke is popularly known to all as Mahadaba Mistri was from kolhapur. In 1942, there was shortage of petroleum products, to overcome this shortage he developed coal gas plant. Only Kirloskar's and Mahadaba Mistri were successful in developing the coal gas plant.
- India's first small size car "MEERA" was conceptualised, designed and built in kolhapur by Mr.Shankarrao Kulkarni.The car can be compared with today's TATA Nano.
Industries in Kolhapur mainly comprise of sugar, textile, automobile ancilleries, engineering and manufacturing units, forging and foundry units, milk industries and chemical industries. The Kolhapur district is a leading district in dairy farming; it boasts of milk-production with huge exports of milk and milk-products. The setting up of dairies Gokul, Warana, Mayur, Sphurti, Yalgud, Shahu has been a landmark in economic development of the district, especially Gokul Milk Co-operative which is one of the biggest dairies in India.
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