MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS

CONFECTIONERY MAKING (Bakeries)

There were 15 establishments in the two towns. 14 of which were located in Jalgaon and one in Amalner. The total employment in them was 35 out of whom, eight were paid employees. Most of the establishments in Jalgaon were located in Ward Nos. V and V1I1, containing nine and three establishments respectively.

The two establishments in the sample in Jalgaon were started in 1952 and 1955. They manufactured breads of different sizes and weights, and biscuits. Both were situated in rented premises, the rent varying between Rs. 10 and Rs. 38 per month. Their expenditure on electricity per month was about Rs. 2 each. They paid Rs. 16 as bhatti tax per year. One was exclusively managed by the owner with a member of his family to help him. Six children were employed in the other. They were paid six annas to twelve annas per day.

Raw materials used were wheat flour, sugar, ghee and baking powder. They used wood as fuel. One of the establishments consumed about 20 maunds of wheat flour, live maunds of sugar, 36 lbs. of ghee and one ton of wood per month. They had equipment such as bhattis, tin trays, small iron sheet boxes to halve bread, long iron bars, vessels, moulds, cupboards, baskets for carrying loaves, etc. One of the establishments had equipment worth about Rs. 600.

They employed old crude methods for baking bread. The margin of protit in both was not large, Their business was more or less continuous throughout the year. It was reported that demand for biscuits was more than the demand for bread. A loaf of bread was sold at anna one and six pies or annas two according to its size and weight. One pound of salted biscuits was sold at Rs. 1-8-0 and. one pound of sweet biscuits at Rs. 1-12-0.

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