Abstract:

Handloom industry is the largest cottage industry in the country. The sector is very important from the point of view of its size and employment potential. It provides direct and indirect employment to over 13 million weavers and is the largest economic activity second only to agriculture. Handloom weavers are facing hardships in carrying out their livelihood on handloom due to competition with power loom sector, marketing problem, infrastructural constraints, and rising yarn prices. Similarly the containing features of in the handicrafts sector are scarcity of appropriate raw material, lack of infrastructure facilities. It provides direct and indirect employment to over 13 million weavers and is the largest economic activity second only to agriculture. Handloom weavers are facing hardships in carrying out their livelihood on handloom due to competition with power loom sector, marketing problem, infrastructural constraints, and rising yarn prices.