01 — Local economy
Business in Jalna
Hybrid seed companies, led by Mahyco, gave Jalna its reputation as a seed-production centre, with cotton, vegetable and grain seed processed and packed here for farmers nationwide. The town is also a large cluster of induction-furnace and rolling mills making TMT bars and billets, and its markets trade sweet lime (mosambi), cotton and pulses from Marathwada.
Where software helps: Steel rolling mills here buy scrap and billets at daily-changing rates and sell TMT bars to dealers on credit, so they need heat-wise yield, power cost per tonne and close watch on dealer outstandings.