Save our cottage industries

We have a great opportunity to earn more foreign currency through promoting the cottage industry. By using a little amount of money and little portion of land, we can establish a cottage industry. In case of rural people, it may be an effective source of income, besides their main occupation.
Moreover, we have an age-old tradition of our cottage industry. It should be noted here that once " Muslin" was famous for its fine quality.
It is a sad truth that we have lost this potential industry on account of the invasion of multi-national companies. Though we have enough raw materials in our country for cottage industry, the condition of these industry is decaying day by day. Our handmade goods can no longer compete with the machine made goods . Poverty of our people is also responsible for the poor condition of cottage industries.
This industry must be developed in order to develop our economy.