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 AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY

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Some statistics of mills, factories, &c, in 1918 or 1918-19, are given as follows for British India (works or factories employing generally 50 persons or more are included in the statistics; :—

Number of

Mills, Factories,

Ac

Persons

employed

(daily

Other information

avenge)

[Output: 581 mln. lb. yarn; 326 J mln. lb. woven goods. Spindles. l 6,175,676. Looms, 108,059 I Capital authorisedi. 17.327,000/.

Cotton mills

235

207,669

(Capital authorisedi, 9,S48,OOOJ. Looms, 40,043. Spindles. \ 839,919.

Jute mill* ....

7«

175,500

Woollen milli.

6

7,832

/Capital authorisedi, 1,743,0001. { Production, 8,801,000 lb. /Capital authorisedi, 327,000*.

Paper mllli

7

5,405

1 Production, 67,332,000 lb. •

Government arms and 1

ammunition factories,.

14

33,459

—

and arsenals. . . '

Breweries.

16

1,895

Production, 8,214,000 gallons.

Cotton ginning, clean- \

ing, and pressing mills J

1,405

100,981

and factories. . ./

Dockyards

14

21,507

—

Iron and brass foundries.

5A

8,599

—

Iron and steel producingi works. . ./

o

20,320

-

Jute presses

12:.

—

Lac factories

70

—

Petroleum refineries.

8

—

Printing presies

141

—

Railway workshops and\

86

118 115

other factories. f

Rice mills.

575

47,724

—

Saw mills ....

1M

12.S16

—

Silk Filatures.

—

Sugar factories

38

10,157

—

Tile and brick factories.

202

22.49S

—

Engineering workshops.

115

25,567

—

1 So far as known.

With regard to cotton spinning and weaving the following tahle gives some further details for India (including Indian States) : —

Tear ended March 31

Spindles

Yarn production

Looms

Cloth production

Lbs.

09 2, 770,851 651,903,307 722,4X^579

681,107,231 660,575,015 615,040.464 035,760,245

No.

103,311 10S.417 110.- 114.S05 116,094 (a)

1914.

1915.

1916.

1917 . 191S. 1919.

No.

6,620,576 6,598,108 '088 6,670,162 6,614,269 0,590,918 (a)

Lbs.

274.388,550 277,005.900 352,254,554 377,728,816 3Sl,404,170 349,580,450 383,846,936

.

(a) Complete figures not yet available.

Companies. — On March 31, 1919, there were 2,789 joint stock companies incorporated in India, under the Indian Companies Act of 1913 and the Mysore Companies Regulation III of 1895 (repealed by Regulation VIII of 1917), and in operation, with paid-up capital of 71,076,000*. (1/. -^Rs. 15).