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Problems of the Woollen Textile Industry


The woollen textile industry is facing the problems of:


(i) Shortage of quantity and quality of wool


(ii) Obsolete machinery


(iii) Competition with more advanced countries


(iv) Competition with synthetic fibres


(v) Shortage of power


(vi) Low quality of goods


(vii) Lack of market

(viii) Strikes by the workers