The district has good horticulture potential and therefore, hort- iculture-based industries have excellent prospects in the district. Specific industries having good scope for development are fruit canning, fruit processing, fisheries, fish preservation, cold storage, rice mills, starch, feed-stock, paper and hard boards, bakeries, rubber products, sago, processing of spices, paints and varnishes, decorticating of cashew seeds, cashew kernel oil, potato seeds, fish meal, saw mills, Mangalore tiles, country craft building, coir, palm gur, nira, arecanut powder, refractor- ies, glass slag and tourism. |
