Importance of Cottage Industries in Nepal

The word 'cottage' means small house. In the same way, cattage industra means the indstry that can be carred on in cattags. The industries such as knitting pottery and some kinds of weaving are cottage indsties. Nepal is a country full of hills and mountains. Urbanisation is diffcult here. Investors are not ready to invest a lage capital in our country because they have not been a good market to sell their product. All of these reasons show the omportance of cattage industry in Nepal. In the village areas, the development of the largescale industries is not possible. Only cattage industry is possible. A cattage industries does not a large amount of money and a large area of land. They can be done simply in a small house. Even a single man or woman easily can run a cottage ndustry. The product does not need a large market or consumers. The goods produce by them are exchanged in the same areas. They can be sold in local Hat Bazaar too.