The cotton textile industry of Tamil Nadu is unique for housing much of the country's spinning capacity and also a significant part of downstream knitwear, power-loom and handloom units that use the yarns from the mills. And all this is notwithstanding the State not being a major producer of the white fibre itself. Consider the following, Tamil Nadu consumers 47 per cent of India's total cotton, with its mills accounting for 22.15 million out of the total spindleage of 47.89 million, and 2.87 lakh rotors of the total 7.6 lakh rotors in the country. The State also contributes 60 per cent of yarn exports from the country. Besides, it is home to Tir-upur, India's cotton knitwear and hosiery capital, not to speak of major powerloom and handloom clusters such as Salem, Erode, Bhavani, Namakkal and Coim-batore or Karur for home textiles.
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