Maharashtra has made great studies in the industrial sphere with Bombay city as the centre. The state accounts for 23% of the gross value of Industrial output in the country. Maharashtra has had a great tradition in textiles and Bombay city was original home of India's textile mills and other centres of weaving has come up like Malegaon and Bhewandi.
Sugar industry has made substantial progress specially in the co-operative sector. Maharashtra is known for the development of sugar industry on co-operative lines in which the formers acquire a share in the sugar mills, Pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, heavy chemicals, electronics, automobiles, engineering, food processing, and plastics are some of the major industries of the state. Maharashtra is noted for the production of 3 wheels, jeeps, commercial vehicles and cars, synthetic fibers, and cold rolled products and industrial alcohol. Small scale industries have also come up in a big way in the state.
MUMBAI DISTRICT:- Mumbai is called as an industrial city. Industrial development in the state is mainly concentrated in Mumbai. It accounts the largest share in ten no: of factories textile industries are mainly concentrated here. The six important industries in the district are cotton, textiles, chemicals and chemical products, manufacture of machinery and machine tools, electrical machinery, transport equipment and basic metal and alloys industries. In addition to this is important small scale industries located in the district are handloom, power loom, dyeing and printing, blacksmithing, carpentry, pricks and tiles manufacturing, soap making etc. These industries also provide employment to a considerable no: of persons in Mumbai city.
AGRICULTURE
Although, it is a highly industrialized state of India, agriculture continues to be the main occupation of the people. Principal crops include rice, Jowar, Bajra, wheat, pulses, cotton, sugarcane, several oil seeds including groundnut, sunflower and soybean, turmeric, onions and other vegetables. The state has large areas, under fruit cultivation of which mangoes, bananas, grapes, and two famous Nagpur oranges are the main ones. Not only the oranges of Bathplug have earned a name for themselves but the juicy Alphonso mangoes and the grapes being cultivated in Nashik and other regions of the state have justify become well known and earn considerable foreign exchange too. Irrigation facilities are being extended so that agriculture could be made less dependant on rain water.
