Chapter 9: Industries Flashcards
What are the factors that are required for establishing an industry?
- Capital: Money and machinery.
- Land: Flat land is required.
- Raw Material: It is the basic commodity to manufacture a product.
- Power supply is required.
- Skilled Labour is required to work on machines. (unskilled labor as well)
- Enterprise: The management having skills.
- Water supply: Basic need of every industry.
- Marketing: To advertise a product
- Transport and Communication: Means of transport is through land (road, rail) air, and sea. Communication devices are required to market.
What are the processes in the production of cotton and in what areas?
Ginning - Karachi
Spinning - Faisalabad
Weaving - Hyderabad
Ready-made - Peshawar
What is the importance of the cotton textile industry?
- It provides job opportunities to a large number of people.
- It contributes approximately 7% to the GDP.
What are the problems faced by the cotton textile industry?
- Shortage of raw material due to leaf curl virus
- Recession in the international market.
- Competition on the international level
from Egypt, Hong Kong, Thailand,
Taiwan etc. - Lack of capital
- Lack of modern machinery
- Power failure
- Alternate supply increases the cost
What are the byproducts of sugarcane and what are their functions?
- Bagasse is a fibre to make paper, chipboard, and animal feed. It is also used for fuel in sugar mills.
- Molasses is used to make chemicals. It is used for citric acid, cattle feed, baker’s yeast,
synthetic rubber.
Why has the demand for cement increased?
- Population increase resulted in more construction
- More industries established
- New roads, bridges, and underpasses are made
- Lining of canals
Why is the Steel Mill located at Pipri in Karachi?
- Port Qasim has a natural harbor that facilitates imports and exports
- Cheap flat land was available in Karachi.
- Iron ore, manganese, etc can be imported easily.
- Limestone and clay are brought from Thatta
- Water is brought from Haleji Lake near Thatta
- Thermal and nuclear power stations are present to produce electricity.
- Cheap labor is available due to more population.
- Transport, by road rail and sea is also available.
What types of processes are there in the textile industry?
Ginning, spinning, weaving, dying, printing
What types of processes are there in the woolen industry?
Weaving, knitting, stitching
What types of processes are there in the Leather industry?
Tanning, stitching, printing
What types of processes are there in the iron/steel industry?
Heating, molding, packing
What types of processing are there in the cement industry?
Grinding, mixing, processing
What are the advantages of cottage and craft/small-scale industries?
- They provide employment opportunities to the people.
- The demands of the local market can be fulfilled.
- Due to exports, foreign exchange is earned.
- Local raw materials can be used.
- Less capital and less sophisticated technology involved.
- Standard of living improves especially in rural areas.
What are the problems of cottage and craft/small-scale industries?
- They cannot compete in the open market if the same goods are manufactured on a large
scale. - They do not have extra capital for the expansion of industrial units.
- There is a lack of standardization and quality control.
- Production methods and machinery are outdated.
- Old, traditional methods are used by the craftsmen in which training is limited.
- Due to shortage of electricity, the production is reduced. Commercial rate of electricity have
decreased the growth.
What are the effects of industrial pollution?
- Dumping of industrial waste causes land pollution.
- Industrial waste dumped in water resources is harmful to the irrigation of crops including
food crops. - The turning of machinery causes noise pollution resulting in deafness and irritability.
- Serious health hazards in the form of various diseases.
- Threat to marine life – contaminated seafood.
- Contamination of subsoil water affects food crops and suppliers of drinking water from
wells.