Economy

Large-scale, Medium and Cottage industries

Cotton textile, spinning mills, ceramic, glass and refractory units, sugar factories, caustic soda plants, salt, chemical, paper and rice mills are included in this category.

Chemical Industries

Paradeep Phosphates Limited (PPL)

This unit was set up in collaboration with the government of Nauru at Paradeep by taking advantage of naptha imported through the port mainly from the middle east countries. The Diammonium Phosphate plant has a production capacity of 0.72 million tonnes and it is the largest plant in Asia. During the second phase of expansion phosphoric acid and sulphuric acid production will be started and the unit will have its own captive power plant.

Jayshree Chemical Limited

This plant is located at Ganjam on the banks of the Rushikulya. It is producing caustic soda discharging its waste into the Rushikulya because of which the river is being polluted. Besides, the east coast salt and chemical factory is operating at Sumandi.

Fertilizer Plant

A fertilizer unit was set up at Talcher in 1971 based on coal by Fertilizer Corporation Of India  (FCI). Urea was produced by this plant in 1979. The fertilizer from this unit accounts for 40-50 percent of the total fertilizer consumed in the state.

Heavy Water Plant

A heavy water plant is operating at Talcher under the Atomic Energy Commission.

Agro-Based Industries

Amongst the agro-based industries, the jute mill at Dhanmandal in Gajpur district, is the most important. Raw jute is being supplied from the jute growing belt of the Mahanadi-Brahmani delta.

Cotton Textiles

A textile mill was established at Chaudwar in 1949 with a capacity of 50,000 spindles and 864 looms. This mill is market based. It gets its supplies of raw cotton from the cotton belt located in the Western Peninsula. Six cotton spinning mills are also operating at Jharsuguda, Bargarh, Khorda, Tistol, Athyarh, Tora and Govindapur mostly in the co-operative sector. Other small weaving and spinning mills are operating at Sambalpur, Baripada. 

Sericulture

Sericulture is an agro-based industry having very high potential in rural Odisha (Orissa). sericulture is high employment  oriented, requires low investment and brings high return. It has a low gestation  period, can help earn a lot of foreign exchange and is non-polluting. Odisha (Orissa) is second to Bihar  in the manufacture of Tassar with a production of about  10 tonnes per annum. This variety of silk is mostly manufactured in old Mayurbhanj, Sundergarh, Kendujhar, Sambalpur and Koraput district. The Tassar  worms thrive mostly  on the shorea robusta (sal), Terminalia arjuna and Terminalia  tomentosa. All these trees are found in abundance in the forests of Odisha (Orissa). Sericulture which started in Odisha (Orissa) 1926 in Cuttack, Puri and Ganjam districts  gradually spread to sundergarh, phulabani and Koraput districts. Mulberry silk is much less important compared to Tassar and Eri  in Odisha (Orissa). Since1981, the Bivoltive Sericulture Development project has been taken up by the state Government. It covers  areas in R.Udayagiri and Mohana blocks and in old  Koraput, Ganjan, phulabani, Kalahandi, Cuttack, Puri, samblapur and Kendujhar districts.

Sugar Mill

A sugar mill was started in Odisha (Orissa) on the eve of the second  world war, at Aska. All sugar factory are raw material oriented.  The sugar factory at Aska is the oldest in the state. At the end of the seventh plan, three sugar factories were operational at Aska, Bargarh and Rayagada. Two more factories are being set up at Nayagarh, in Nayagarh districts and  Badamba in Cuttack. Besides, some other Sugar mills were started  at Dharmagarh  in old Kalahandi  district, Haripur in Dhenkamal district, Nabarangapur in Nabarangpur district, Deogaon in Balangir district and Anandapur in Kendujhar district.

Rice Mill

Rice mill are an important agro-based industry in Odisha (Orissa). They cluster invariably  around the railheads  of old Baleshwar, Cuttck and Sambalpur  districts. Besides, a large number of rice hullers are operating in rural collecting centres all over Odisha (Orissa) .

Tyre Factory

A tyre factory is being set up by the Birlas at Baleshwar to feed the local and national market. 

The Aeronautical Industry

The MIG  Engine  factory at Sunabeda near Koraput  is a landmark in the industrial development  of Odisha (Orissa). This factory was established in collaboration with the former USSR.

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