Question

Name the states where woolen mills have been set up in India.

Answer 1

Hint: The first hub for the woolen mill industry was the famous North Indian woolen mill. The town is renowned for its leather and textile industries in Uttar Pradesh. It is also the second largest city and the largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Other woolen mills, situated in the land of five rivers, are renowned for their brave, helpful and hospitable people and their exuberant festivals and celebrations.

Complete answer:
Woolen mills -
An institution in which all or some of the main wool-manufacturing operations, such as carding, spinning and weaving, are carried out separately or together, is a wool-mill.

Woolen mills in India -
The first modern woolen textile mill (Lai Imli) was built in Kanpur (UP) in 1876.
 It was followed by another woolen mill in Dhariwal (Punjab) in 1881.
Subsequently, new mills began in Mumbai and Bangalore in 1886. The industry did not make any progress until the end of the Second World War.
After independence, the woolen textile industry made rapid progress. There are currently more than 600 woolen mills, 1100 hosiery units and 150 yarn spinning units.

The highest concentration of the textile wool industry is found in Punjab, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. These countries account for 75% of India's total power. Other important producing countries include Gujarat, Karnataka, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir.

i) Punjab is the largest producer of woolen goods in the world. Dhariwal has a good number of woolen mills. Other centers are Amritsar, Ludhiana and Kharar. Ludhiana specializes in hosiery and knitwear, while Amritsar manufactures the worsted, tweed and flannels. Punjab has the advantage of a wide market, proximity to raw wool, cheap hydropower and hard-working people.
ii) Maharashtra is India's second largest producer of woolen textiles. The industry is focused on imported raw wool from Australia, Italy and the United Kingdom. Most of the mills are located in the center of Mumbai, due to their port facilities.
iii) Uttar Pradesh has the first woolen mill in Kanpur to meet the needs of the British Armed Forces. Other centers are in Shahjahanpur, Mirzapur, Bhadohi and Agra. Mirzapur and Bhadohi are also known for producing carpets.

Other important centers are Panipat, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Bahadurgarh in Haryana; Jamnagar, Vadodara and Ahmedabad in Gujarat; Kolkata and Howrah in West Bengal; Gwaiior in Madhya Pradesh; Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir; Bangalore and Bellary in Karnataka.


Kanpur is the largest industrial town in Uttar Pradesh. A lot of units are set up here.Agra, Aligarh, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Lucknow, Mirzapur, Modinagar, Varanasi, Bhadohi, Bareilly and Firozabad are the cities where the industrial units have been set up.

40 percent of the woolen units are located in Punjab, 27 per cent in Haryana, 10 per cent in Rajasthan, while the rest of the States account for the remaining 23 per cent of the units. Some of the larger units are located in Maharashtra, Punjab, U.P., Gujarat and West Bengal.

Note:
Every year, Australia produces about 345 million kilos of wool – about one fifth of the world's wool. This makes Australia the world's leading producer of wool, followed by China, Russia, New Zealand, Argentina, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Uruguay.

India is the seventh largest producer of wool in the world with a global production share of almost 1.8%. The state that produces the largest amount of wool is Rajasthan.