Here below you can find the details of West Godavari District’s Key Statistics, Focus Sectors in West Godavari, Connectivity, Natural Resource Endowment, Agriculture & Aquaculture Highlights, Industry Highlights, Tourism Highlights, Narsapur Lace work

FACTS ABOUT ANDHRA PRADESH STATE

Key Statistics

Area : 7,700 sq. km

Population : 39.35 lakh

Literacy rate : 74.32%

District Domestic Product : USD 6.53 billion

Focus Sectors in West Godavari

• Textiles
• Ceramics
• Agro & Food processing
• Aquaculture

Connectivity

Proposed Narsapur port

Natural Resource Endowment

Rich in Minerals –

• Ball clay
• Limestone
• Quartz
• Building Stone Minerals
• Fire Clay
• Dolomite
• Road Metal

Agriculture & Aquaculture Highlights

Primarily an Agrarian district

Hub for agriculture-based industries

Known as ‘Granary of India’ due to almost 50% contribution to state’s rice production

Oil palm, Sugarcane, Corn, Mango, and Banana are produced in the district

Leader in Prawn export

Industry Highlights

Upcoming UAV/Missile cluster in the district

Home to –

• Ceramic units
• Oil refineries
• Sugar mills
• Carpet Industries
• Rice mills
• Lace Industries

Tourism Highlights

• Kolleru Lake
• Dwaraka Tirumala

Narsapur Lace work

Narsapur is famous for exquisite crochet lace products, and engages over 2 lakh women artisans

Cluster has around 50 exporters who export to major world markets in USA, Europe and Japan

Lace work done with thin threads and woven with thin stainless steel crochet needles of varying sizes

Thread used is twisted mercerized cotton yarn made out of superior grade cotton

Lace work available in different colours like pink, green and mustard, but being and white are most common

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