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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