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CHAPTER VI.—SEASONAL FACTORIES.
Seasonal Industries.
We turn now to the special problems presented by seasonal
factories, i.e, those places, mainly employing power machinery,
open for a part of the year only, and concerned for the most part
with the handling of a particular crop as it becomes available. The
statistics hitherto maintained in respect of factories have not distin-
guished between perennial factories and seasonal factories. We have
made efforts to collect statistics but, owing partly to ambiguity in the
definition of seasonal factories, it is impossible to give precise figures.
The position, however, is fairly well indicated in the attached table
for 1929, subject to the remarks appended.
Number of factories.
Number of operatives.
[ndustry.
India.
Burms.
Total.
India.
Burma.
Total.
A .—Predominanily
Seasonal.
Cotton ginning
and pressing ..
Tea factories ‘sr
Jute pressing .e
Others we es
Total (A)
B.— Partially Seasonal.
Rice mills .. ..
Oil mills .. 4
Gur and Sugar factories
Tobacco factories ..
Others .. ..
Total (B) ..
Total (A) and (B) rw
2,149
934
115
280
3 ATR
998
219
44
16
230
1,615
4.993
27
7
a4
608
25
1
17
651
68s |
2,176
934
115
a7
3.519
1,606
244
45
16
955
2 166
5.678
36,666
63,064
37,300
11.868
248.398
36,529
10,258
14,726
9,922
21.738
93,173
341,571
3,321
276
3.547
39,685
1.237
350
996
42 108
45.795
139,087
63,064
37,300
11.644
251.995
76,214
11,495
15,076
9,922
29.664
135.371
387.366
OO —Perennial.
Textiles .. -
Engineering and Metals
Others - ”
Total (C) -
Total (A), (BY and (C)
|
155
306
R9G
2,160
"15
3
65
999
291
ove
458
871
1.199
2.451
1920
595,745
295,068
[29 TNR
1.113.521
1.455.002
667
19,697
29 (318
52,282
98.077
696,412
314,665
154.726
1,165,803
1.553.169
N.B.—* India ? denotes British India excluding Burma.
We have divided all the factories into three classes. In the
first class we have placed factories belonging to groups which are
entirely. or almost entirely. seasonal. Thus all the cotton-ginning
