ECONOMIC PROSPECTS

MISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIES.

Similarly, there is considerable scope in the coastal region for the development of the coir industry. The All India Coir Board has been given assistance in the form of finance, marketing and introduction of new designs.

With the development of ports and availability of better shipping facilities, traffic is expected to increase. It will encourage country craft building. Jayagad, Ratnagiri, Vijayadurg, Deogad, Malwan and Vengurla are the centres where repairing of sailing vessels is done but the industry is not well organised. Small industries like mechanised carpentry and smithy shops constructing small vessels can be developed at such places.

There is also the possibility of developing salt manufacturing along the coast line.

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