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Location of Industries: Factors Responsible for the Location of Industries

Industrial locations are complex in nature. These are influenced by the availability of many factors. Some of them are raw material, land, water, labor, capital, power, transport, and market. Industrial System: An industrial system consists of inputs, processes, and outputs. The inputs are the raw materials, labor, and costs of land, transport, power, and other infrastructure. The processes include a wide range of activities that convert the raw material into finished products. The outputs are the end product and the income earned from it. In the case of the textile industry, the inputs may be cotton, human labor, factory, and transport cost. The processes include ginning, spinning, weaving, dyeing, and printing. The output is the shirt you wear. But besides such purely geographical factors influencing industrial location, there are factors of historical, human, political, and economic nature which are now tending to surpass the force of geographical advantages. Consequently, the facto...