Start with one of Surat’s three trades
Surat’s Saree Trade
Fabrics, printing and embroidery, the Ring Road wholesale markets, and how a catalog is actually bought.
Surat’s Diamond Trade
Cutting and polishing, lab-grown growing capacity, the trading streets, and the companies behind them.
Surat’s Food
Ghari, locho, undhiyu, ponk — the dishes, the shops, the seasons, and the district trade behind them.
The Wholesale Markets
Millennium, J.J. AC, Raghukul, Surat Textile Market and the rest of the Ring Road belt.
Named Companies
65 real companies across the three trades, each with an About and an Explore button.
Trade Bodies
SGCCI, GJEPC, the Surat Diamond Bourse, the Diamond Association and the Indian Diamond Institute.
Surat’s three trades in figures
- Around 30% of world fabric production and about 65% of India's man-made fibre segment
- Close to 60 million metres of fabric a day, more than 600 processing houses
- About 2 lakh shuttleless looms and over 2.5 lakh embroidery and digital printing units
- About 80% of the world's diamonds cut and polished here, across 4,000+ units
- Roughly 1.5 million carats of lab-grown diamonds produced a year
- Sugarcane the district's principal crop since the Bardoli co-operative was formed in 1956
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Education in Surat
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