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Emerging Trends of Red Clay Pottery Industries at Vidarbha


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1 Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Rural Industrialisation, Wardha, Maharashtra, India
2 G S College of Commerce, Wardha, Maharashtra, India
 

In the present day, the red clay pottery industry has been put forward as a major cottage industry for variety of pottery products used for festivals, decorative pottery, big pots for drinking water, etc. But the sector is backward and using traditional and age old technologies because scientific and technical knowledge is lacking due to illiteracy and poverty. The objective of the present study is to examine the characteristic features of the red clay pottery industry of Vidarbha, and identify the reasons of failure of common facility center constructed under UNDP programme. Also study the impact of newly developed technologies for start-up of new home scale pottery business. Finally recommend appropriate suggestions and guideline for future progress.


Keywords

Red Clay Pottery Industry of Vidarbha, Red Clay Terracotta, Problems of Red Clay Pottery Industries, Technologies and Machines for Red Clay Terracotta Industry, Start-Up, Policy.
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Shashi Prakash Mishra
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Rural Industrialisation, Wardha, Maharashtra, India
A. K. J. Mansuri
G S College of Commerce, Wardha, Maharashtra, India

Abstract


In the present day, the red clay pottery industry has been put forward as a major cottage industry for variety of pottery products used for festivals, decorative pottery, big pots for drinking water, etc. But the sector is backward and using traditional and age old technologies because scientific and technical knowledge is lacking due to illiteracy and poverty. The objective of the present study is to examine the characteristic features of the red clay pottery industry of Vidarbha, and identify the reasons of failure of common facility center constructed under UNDP programme. Also study the impact of newly developed technologies for start-up of new home scale pottery business. Finally recommend appropriate suggestions and guideline for future progress.


Keywords


Red Clay Pottery Industry of Vidarbha, Red Clay Terracotta, Problems of Red Clay Pottery Industries, Technologies and Machines for Red Clay Terracotta Industry, Start-Up, Policy.