Agriculture and Other Industries
Yavatmal is also considered a tribal district of Maharashtra and a land of farmers. Major crops grown are cotton (kapoos), yellow beans (toor), wheat (gahu), sugarcane (oos), groundnut (bhooimung), and chillies (mirchi).
Despite the districts many major rivers—which include the Painganga, Wardha, Arnavati, Pus, Kuhu, Waghari and Benbala—Yavatmal's agricultural conditions suffer constantly due to the unavailability of water in most parts of the district. Yavatmal City itself also has a problem with drinking water. Agriculture is also often impacted by droughts, floods or heavy rains and nowadays the situation is so bad that Yavatmal district has the highest number of farmer suicides in India. The Indian prime minister has visited the area to assess the situation.
Aside from agriculture, there are other small scale industries such as ginning and pressing, handmade paper, weaving, oil mills, textile mills (the Raymond Factory in Yavatmal), and nylon ropes amongst others. A new 106 acres (0.43 km2) Textile SEZ has been proposed in the city. The Hindustan Lever Plant also commenced production in December 2010.
Read more about this topic: Yavatmal
Famous quotes containing the words agriculture and, agriculture and/or industries:
“In past years, the amount of money that has had to be been spent on armaments, great and small, instead of on productive industry and agriculture and the arts, has been a disgrace to all of us in every part of the world.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“In past years, the amount of money that has had to be been spent on armaments, great and small, instead of on productive industry and agriculture and the arts, has been a disgrace to all of us in every part of the world.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)