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NepalManufacturing
Among the modern industries were large manufacturing
plants,
including many public sector operations. The major
manufacturing
industries produced jute, sugar, cigarettes, beer,
matches, shoes,
chemicals, cement, and bricks. The garment and carpet
industries,
targeted at export production, have grown rapidly since
the mid1980s whereas jute production has declined. Industrial
estates were
located in Patan (also called Lalitpur), Balaju, Hetauda,
Pokhara,
Dharan, Butawal, and Nepalganj. The government provided
the land
and buildings for the industrial estates, but the
industries
themselves were mostly privately owned.
The 1986-87 Nepal Standard Industrial Classification
counted
2,054 manufacturing establishments of 10 or more persons
from 51
major industry groups, employing about 125,000 workers.
That same
year the total output from these industries amounted to
about Rs10
billion; value added was estimated at almost Rs3.6
billion. It was
nearly Rs5.1 billion in FY 1989. By FY 1989, there were
2,334 such
establishments recorded, employing about 141,000 persons.
Data as of September 1991
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