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AHMEDABAD, OCT 28: Ban on import and sale of Chinese fireworks has virtually failed to boost domestic firecracker sales as traders have registered an overall 20 per cent decline in indigenously-manufactured firecrackers’ demand leading to a loss of nearly 30,000 jobs in recent past, business body Assocham said on Friday.
An Assocham survey across major cities reported poor business owing to anti-cracker campaigns run by schools, resident welfare associations (RWAs) and others.
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) interacted with firecracker wholesalers, retailers and traders in 10 cities -- Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chennai, Dehradun, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow and Mumbai - -to gauge the enthusiasm and demand for firecrackers together with the impact of ban on Chinese crackers across India.
“It is not just Chinese firecrackers but multiple factors like growing environmental awareness, rising cost of living, growing tendency amid people to save their hard-earned money rather than spoiling it on burning crackers, paucity of time, traffic congestions during festive period and others have together dented this business over the years,” said majority of 250 firecracker traders in these cities where Assocham representatives surveyed during the last 25 days.
Most of the traders said they have seen a sharp decline of about 20 per cent year-on-year from the past five years and have also almost halved the amount of crackers they used to get in the wake of poor sales.
“Banning Chinese firecrackers was a welcome move aimed at strengthening the domestic industry. However, growing criticism of bursting firecrackers and all the negative publicity together with rising air and noise pollution have eventually faded the growth of firecracker industry across India,” said D.S. Rawat, Secretary-General, Assocham.
About a hundred firecracker manufacturing units in Sivakasi have shut their shop owing to intense campaigns and growing sales of China-made crackers over the years, it is estimated that about 30,000 people have lost their livelihood, he said.
He said there are about 800 licensed firecracker making units in Sivakasi where this industry accounted for a market of about Rs. 2,500 crore. This has been facing heat from Chinese products whose import has grown by leaps and bounds during past few years.
Rise in cost of raw materials and overall inflation have also discouraged people from buying firecrackers over the last few years now.
(This article was published on October 28, 2016)
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I am not really interested in their environmentalist concern or China's firework export to india (the number is pathetically small to China or Hunan Province).
One point is quite interesting to me.
It's the way firework is produced, in China the word is "manufactured".
The whole industry is being fiercely automatised, not matter you like it or not.
Hand-made firework industry is rapidly shrinking, the momentum is unstoppable.
In Liuyang, Hunan Province of Central China, one company has upgraded their production line to the 3rd generation after 8 years with an investment of 100 million yuan.
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So now, they have reduced 90% labor.
Productivity increases fivefold.
The complete automation enables 100% separation between workers and chemicals.
The whole firework industry in Liuyang, the firework capital of the world (11 billion yuan per year), is quickly embracing automation, IoTs and Made-in-China 2025.
Weekly firework show at Orange Isle, Changsha City, capital of Hunan Province
(Liuyang City belongs to Changsha)
