Production of Wool in India & Top wool Producer

 TOP WOOL PRODUCING  COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD

Australia is the leading country in producing wool in the world with 25% of total production. China and United states are the two competitors for the 2nd position  having china (18%) where United States (17%) of total production. Then comes, NewZealand 11% of total production followed by many other countries that is shown below in the table.

 

Types of wool 

There are two types of wool based on the properties like diameter of fibre, fineness of fibre plays major role. Other quality factors are strength, length, contaminants, uniformity & color. 

Grading of wool in India

In India, based on the diameter of merino wool grading given as :

Wool finer than 25 microns are used as garments and coarser grade wool is used for outerwear, rugs and blankets. 

Top 10 wool producing states in India

Rajasthan is the largest wool producing state in India with producing around 30% of wool (15 million tones every year) . There are total of 70 wool processing units in Rajasthan which helps in increasing productivity of wool.

List of top 10 wool poducing states in India are

1.) Rajasthan

2.) Karnataka

3.) Jammu & Kashmir

4.) Telangana

5.) Gujarat

6.) Himachal Pradesh

7.) Uttar Pradesh

8.) Haryana

9.) Maharashtra

10.) Andhra Pradesh

More than 80% of wool are produced by the top 5 states i.e. Rajasthan, Karnataka, Jammu & Kashmir, Telangana and Gujarat.