Class 10 Social Science — Chapter 6: MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES

What you'll learn

• ▸Definition and Importance of Manufacturing
• ▸Interdependence of Agriculture and Industry
• ▸Classification of Industries
• ▸Cotton Textile Industry
• ▸Structure of the Indian Textile Value Chain
• ▸Jute Textile Industry

Chapter Summary

--- PAGE 1 --- T068CH06 MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES 6 On the occassion of Diwali, Harish went to a market with his parents. They purchased shoes and clothes for him. His mother purchased utensils, sugar, tea and diyas (earthen lamps). Harish observed that the shops in the market were flooded with items for sale. He wondered how so many items could be made in such large quantities. His father explained that shoes, clothes, sugar etc. are manufactured by machines in large industries, some utensils are manufactured in small industries, while items like diyas are made by individual artisans in household industry. Do you have some ideas about these industries? Production of goods in large quantities after processing from raw materials to more valuable products is called manufacturing. Do you know that paper is manufactured from wood, sugar from sugarcane, iron and steel from iron ore and aluminium from bauxite? Do you also know that some types of clothes are manufactured from yarn which it…

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1. Explain factory automation simply. Get Solution →
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3. Discover different types of industries. Get Solution →
4. What is the definition of manufacturing provided in the chapter? Get Solution →
5. According to the chapter, the economic strength of a country is measured by the development of what? Get Solution →
6. Which of the following is an example of a mineral-based industry? Get Solution →
7. Industries like TISCO and Bajaj Auto Ltd. are examples of which sector, based on ownership? Get Solution →
8. When and where was the first successful textile mill established in India? Get Solution →

Did you know?

• 💡 The world's first industrial factory was a silk mill in Italy from 1719.
• 💡 Enough steel is made annually to construct over 1,000 Eiffel Towers.
• 💡 One cotton plant produces enough fiber for about 50 pairs of jeans.
• 💡 Lego factories produce roughly 2,000 plastic bricks every single second.
• 💡 Early humans manufactured stone tools over 3 million years ago.

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