Earnings from Mat Industry: A Study in Sabang Block of Paschim Medinipur District
- Author Chittaranjan Das
- DOI
- Country : India
- Subject : Commerce
Keywords : cultivation, earning, labour-day, mat industry
Abstract
In the labour surplus economy, the small scale and cottage industries like mat industry play a vital role to the rural economy. The mat weaving industry in Sabang blocks of Paschim Medinipur district is highly labour intensive and it forms a considerable part of the handicraft industry. The mat industry is an employment oriented agro-based cottage industry. This paper tries to examine the nature of mat industry, to measure the earnings per labour –day of the mat weavers’ through Cost-Benefit Analysis and the marketing pattern of the industry. There are three stages: (a) Cultivation, (b) Harvesting and (c) Weaving are found in mat industry. The later stages like harvesting and finally weaving are more labour-intensive and earning per labour-day gradually decreases due to labour intensity though cash earning before charging labour cost is highest in the last stage of weaving. For overcoming the marketing problem, mat weavers have to organize through mat weaving co-operative societies.
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