THE STATUS OF SALT INDUSTRY IN INDIA
The art of salt making in India has been carried on, from the time, immemorial. In India, manufacturing of salt along with sea coast in Bengal, Bombay, Madras and the Rann of Kutchch, flourished as cottage industry for centuries. In his book Early History of Bengal Mr. F.H. Manhan gives a passage Arthasastra- a book dealing with the history of Mauryan period (300 B.C), which says that salt manufacture was even that distance date supervised by a state official designated lavandhyaksa (Head of Salt). During the British regime the indigenous salt manufacturing in certain region of the country was so much suppressed that the local Salt Producer lost their lively hood due to closure of their self employed units. During 1924, in Gujarat a big salt works was established. Since then Indian Salt Industry not lagged behind in production of salt. Salt production touched two million tons by 1947. Now, salt production of India is 17.5 to 19 million tons per annum since last three years and India is the 3rd biggest salt manufacturer of the World. Indian salt Industry is going global by adopting modernization / mechanization. About 4.0 million tons salt is up graded in washing plants to the purity of about 99.5％ on dry basis. This salt is exported and consumed by local Chlor-Alkali Industry. Now Mechanization and Modernization of major salt works is under full progress. The consumption of iodized salt for edible purpose is 4.9 million tons per annum; there are 52 refineries and three giant vacuum salt plants. Indian salt industry is ready to meet the growing demand of salt for edible and industrial use. Recently, Govt. allotted about 40,000 Hectares of land for development of salt works and salt by-product industry mainly for export.
D.S.JHALA
Dev Salt Private Limited88- Panchvati Society,P.N.Marg, Jamnagar-361002, Gujarat, INDIA
国际会议
9th International Symposium on Salt(第九届世界盐业大会)
北京
英文
1661-1673
2009-09-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）