GENERAL ECONOMIC SURVEY

INTRODUCTION

THIS PART OF THE VOLUME IS DEVOTED to a detailed description of the economic life in Jalgaon district. In the chapters that follow such of the important activities which constitute the economic life of the people as agriculture, industry, trade and commerce, miscellaneous occupations, finance, and transport and communications in the region are discussed at length. No such study would be complete unless an analysis of the efforts exerted by the people of the region to make the best use of the resources involved in the above-noted activities to improve their standard of life, is also undertaken. With this view, the standard of life maintained by the urban and rural population is also discussed. Finally, attempt is made to give in brief the natural potentialities of the district which could be exploited in the interest of the future economic prosperity of the district. This chapter aims at briefly describing the existing economic conditions in the district which would serve as an introduction to the detailed analysis which follows in the subsequent chapters.

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