Cluster Profile
| 1 | Name Of Cluster | Dantan Agricultural Implements |
| 2 | Place | Dantan |
| 3 | District | West Medinipur |
| 4 | State | West Bengal |
| 5 | No of firms (by type) | 129 |
| 6 | No. of workers | 450 |
| 7 | Turnover(Rs in Million's) | Rs.13 Million |
| 8 | Associations in cluster | Nil |
| 9 | Major products | Axes Sickles Tong Fish cutter |
| 10 | Specific and relevant technical institutions (R&D, Testing Lab accredited) |
Rural Dev. Cell of IIT- Kharagpur, ITI-Midnapore ITI-Thargram Polytechnique of Jhargram |
| 11 | Major markets | Domestic |
| 12 | Major problems/prospects | Primitive technology and almost complete manual process. Low productivity and only limited product range. Lack of information of product diversification and Market position to the unit owners. Unorganized and scatteringly distributed cluster. Trust level is very low among all actors of the cluster and social capital is poor. Most of the unit owners are poor and majority of them comes under BPL. There are no well-defined marketing channels. Unit owners have a strong bias to the traditional working system and products. Most of the units use wood charcoal as fuel, which is responsible for low quality product. Mineral coal is not available in most part of the cluster |
| 13 | Data source and updated on | DSR prepared by DIC, South 24 Paragnas, 2007 |