PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND PROBLEMS OF THE HANDLOOM TEXTILE UNITS: A CASE STUDY ON THE SINGPHOS OF ASSAM

Handloom weaving is the second largest and the most essential cottage industry after agriculture in India and it also provides the highest employment opportunities to the rural people. The present paper aims to study about the production behavior and problems of the handloom units of Singphos of the sample region. In this paper CobbDouglas production function is used to represent the production technology of the handloom units. R2 indicates that about 67 per cent of the variation in the output is explained by the labour and capital. By using one tailed T test on the parameter it is found that handloom units are reveals constant returns to scale.