Subject(s): Small business. -- Management -- Rural Industries -- Pattu sarees industries -- Women -- Rural industialization -- Khadi and Village industries -- Small scale enterprises, problems of rural industries including cottage and small scale industries, problems faced by small scale pattu sarees industries in Thanjavur, problems of rural industries- chidambaram taluk, retrospect and prospect of food processing industry -- Rice mill industry, coir industry, coconut fiber units in Tenkasi taluk, women in dairy industry, emerging challenges in dairy industry, milk production, problems and policy implications of sugar industry,beedi industry in rural areas, handloom sector, indian cotton handloom exports in globalised economy, consumer behaviour towards handloom textile, women and rural industrialisation, women entrepreneurs for rural industrialisation, role of KVIC in promoting Khadi and village industries