01 — Local economy
Business in Agra
Beyond the Taj Mahal and the hotels, guides and marble-inlay workshops that tourism sustains, Agra is one of India's largest footwear producers, with thousands of small shoe units supplying domestic traders and exporters. Foundry Nagar and Nunhai host iron foundries making diesel-engine, generator and pump parts, potatoes from the district fill cold storages, and petha confectionery is a local speciality.
Where software helps: Shoe units making for exporters and domestic traders juggle size-and-colour matrices, uppers stitched by outside job-workers and season-wise design changes, so stock and costing by article number quickly get out of hand.