Variation in Sex Ratio-Development Implications

submitted recently to the union government by the state government's directorate of sugar and Maharashtra Rajya Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Sangh has brought out relevant data on the manufacture of by-products based on sugarcane molasses. There are as many as 38 distilleries which are in operation in the state. Of these, 29 are in the co-operative sector. The number of distilleries which are under erection in the co-operative sector stands at 14. As many as seven paper plants are working and one is under construction, in the co-operative sector. The co-operative sugar factories have also set up seven chemical plants. They are setting up four particle board plants.