Natural gas refining ONGC Hazira, Gujarat GAIL: Pipelines Reliance KG Basin Fertilizer Industry: Location Mock Questions In the previous article, we saw the geographical factors responsible for the location of Petroleum refinaries & synthetic textile industry. Let's move to [...]
Petroleum Refineries: Location @raw material site: Disadvantages Refineries @ port locations Reliance Jamnagar Refinery: Location Factors Refineries @Market Location: Advantages Synthetic fibers In the previous article, we saw the geographical factors responsible for the location of Copper smelting industry. [...]
Copper Refining Copper: Foreign location Copper Refining: Indian Locations Hindalco (Aditya Birla group) Sterlite Industry Acid Industry India Copper Industry: Challenges Lead & Zinc Industry In the previous article, we saw the geographical factors responsible for the location of [...]
Aluminum industry: Foreign Locations Aluminum Industries: Desi Location Hindalco/ Birla Vedanta Aluminum Niyamgiri hills Aluminum To understand the reason behind location of aluminum refineries, first we need to understand how aluminum is produced from bauxite? Phase: bauxite to Alumina [...]
Automobile industry Detroit: Car Capital of World Detroit Bankruptcy Toyota-Nagoya region, Japan Sanand, Ahmedabad: the Nano Factory Shipbuilding industry Japanese Shipbuilding industry German Shipbuilding Mock Questions In the previous article, we saw the geographical factors affecting the location of [...]
Steel Based Industrial Regions USA, Great Lakes-Pittsburg region Canada: St Lawrence Valley Germany, Ruhr Valley Britain: Birmingham, Midlands Sweden, Central region CIS: Ural region China: Steel industry China: Backyard Furnaces Integrated vs Mini steel plants Desi (Indian) Steel Plants [...]
Prologue Iron-coal industry Location factors Iron Industry: three locations #1: Near Forest #2: Near coal fields #3: Near coastal areas Factor: Empty Wagons Ural-Kuznetsk combine Bokaro Rourkela Combine The curious case of Cleveland Factor: Coking coal Shortage Factor: Technology [...]
Coffee & American Revolution Coffee: geographical factors Brazil: Sao Paulo Coffee: Kerala In the previous article, we talked about the geographical factors affecting the location of the tea plantation industry in India and China. Moving to the next topic: [...]
Tea: Geographical Factors Black vs Green Tea Factor: break of the bulk (London) Tea: Darjeeling Tea: China In the previous article, we discuss the geographical factors affecting the location of rubber plantation. Now moving to the next topic Tea [...]
Sugar Mills: Nature of Raw material Indian Sugar Mills: Location factors Sugar Mills: Maharashtra Sugar Mills: Uttar Pradesh North Vs South India Cuba, the Sugar bowl Sugar beet Banana Plantations In the previous article, we discuss the geographical factors [...]
Rubber Plantations Processing of Natural Rubber Factor: technology Rubber: Malaysia Rubber: Kerala Factors: Why decline in S.America In the previous article, we discussed the geographical factors affecting plantation crops particularly Cocoa plantations in South America. Now let's move to [...]
Prologue Plantations: Why? Types of Plantation crops Factor: Gestation Factor: Price shocks Cocoa Ghana, Cocoa Triangle Factor: Bean Processing Prologue In the last three articles, we saw geographical factors that affect the location of timber and fish industry; Natural [...]
Vegetables Industry California: veggies and fruits Curious case of oranges Von Thunen Agro land use model Viticulture, Grapes, Liquor Government policy Impact Viticulture India Mock Questions In the previous article, we discussed the geographical factors affecting location of Meat, [...]