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India is the world's second largest exporter of textiles and clothing, and in the fiscal year 2022, the exports stood at US$44.4 billion. [2] According to the Ministry of Textiles, the share of textiles in total exports during April–July 2010 was 11.04%. During 2009–2010, the Indian textile industry was pegged at US$ 55 billion, 64% of ...
Cotton. The history of cotton can be traced from its domestication, through the important role it played in the history of India, the British Empire, and the United States, to its continuing importance as a crop and commodity. The history of the domestication of cotton is very complex and is not known exactly. [1]
According to the Ministry of Textiles, the share of textiles in total exports during April–July 2010 was 11.04%. During 2009–2010, the Indian textile industry was pegged at US$ 55 billion, 64% of which services domestic demand. [25] In 2010, there were 2,500 textile weaving factories and 4,135 textile finishing factories in all of India. [26]
Cotton production is a $21 billion-per-year industry in the United States, employing over 125,000 people in total, [1] as against growth of forty billion pounds a year from 77 million acres of land covering more than eighty countries. [3] The final estimate of U.S. cotton production in 2012 was 17.31 million bales, [4] with the corresponding ...
Pages in category "History of the textile industry in India" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Exports in million US$ Share of total exports Leading export good Year 1 Gujarat: 146,485 33.55% Petroleum products 2022/23 2 Maharashtra: 72,498 16.60% Engineering goods 2022/23 3 Tamil Nadu: 40,673 9.32% Engineering goods 2022/23 4 Karnataka: 27,884 6.39% Petroleum products 2022/23 5 Uttar Pradesh: 21,686 4.97% Electronic goods 2022/23 6 ...
Furthermore, Indian de-industrialisation is also hard to track due to its relatively low share of textile exports in the total textile production. In India, by 1920, the trade to GDP ratio declined and international trade reshaped the domestic structure of the economy. [27] India became one of the major markets for the British made cotton yarns ...
India was the world's main producer of cotton textiles and had substantial export trade to Britain as well as many other European countries, via the East India Company. According to some commentators, after the British victory over the Mughal Empire ( Battle of Buxar ), India was deindustrialized by the East India Company, and then the British.