Meghalaya has no heavy industries; small-scale industries include the manufacture of cement, plywood, and foodstuffs.
Chinatown's economy, now as in the past, depends largely on a core of small businesses in mature and declining industries: small-scale manufacturing, much of it in the garment industry; restaurants that specialize in Chinese cuisine; retail and wholesale trade; tourism and gift shops.
The construction industry, small-scale manufacturing, middle-sized firms and the export sector were hard hit in many countries which led to a sharp decline of tax revenues for the public authorities.
Replacing diesel power generators in remote cell-phone towers and rural industries with small scale bio-mass would relieve the country of a substantial oil imports tab -- at a much lower price.
The indirect solar dryer (dryer II) is predestined for manufacture by small scale industries.
The Sri Lankan batik industry is a small scale industry which can employ individual design talent and mainly deals with foreign customers for profit.
Many industries like steel, automobiles, distilleries, small scale industries and boiler manufacturing industries have crop up within a few decades of time.
In comparison with industrialized countries, Uganda's industry is mostly small scale (84%) in which about 50% of the firms employ 10 persons or less.
These factors also include policies related to import/export, distribution, pricing, public sector, small scale industries, sick industries development, etc.
There are no big industries around the town, while there are a few small scale industries like a sugarcane factory, a fertilizer industry, a beer factory and a chemical factory in and around the town.
The main disadvantages of this pathway are the seasonality characteristic of the sugarcane agro-industry, the relative small scale of sugar facilities,g and the high initial capital investment.
