Indian handicraft industry is the low technology but organized and dominated by Labour intensive industry. It is found that 20% of our indian handicraft products are rejected in the national and international market due to damages or quality problems. The acceptance percentage of the product is still in between the 80-90%.
There are still the problems in Indian handicraft industry which can be studied in five major areas -
Manufacturing and production management
Operation management
Market assessment and management
Financial management
Social, cultural and healthcare problems

Problems -
high raw material and procurement cost
low productivity
Inefficient infrastructural facilities
exchange rate changes
high transaction cost
poor marketing of final product
poor logistics and inventory
un proper printing, packaging and other IT support facilities
proper non communication between the national and international market
limited availability of skilled manpower support
Lack of quality control measurements
Limited power supply
Limited awareness problems
many manufacturing units are operated from home
Recommendations for improving the handicrafts in India -
value added manufacturing resources.
Increment in bottleneck of resources
Balancing establishment in the manufacturing processes and operations
Timely management of financial resources like loans
Suitable marketing strategies should be developed
Proper export units should be developed
Forming handicraft consortiums of manufactures and dealers
Develop cost effective marketing channels
Appropriate training and procurement on preparing the high quality product
Developing common website for the promotion of the handicraft products
Participating in national and international level consortiums
Common IT support for different manufacturing units.
So these are the recommendations for handicrafts quality improvement in Indian Handicrafts! Thanks for reading the post !