those manufacturing Khadi cotton products.
Trade flourishes in Belgaum, and many areas of the city are dedicated to certain kinds of trade. For example, almost all automobile-related trade and manufacture happens in the Fort Road area of the city and Udyambag. The Raviwarpeth area is known as the wholesale market which sells commodities such as grains and tea.
Belgaum also is a strong industrial hub for machine shops catering to automotive manufacturing, especially in Crankshaft machining and castings. The geographical location of the city is an advantage, since it is situated between Bangalore and Mumbai–Pune, to support the major automotive and aerospace companies along with other nearby industrial hubs such as Ichalkaranji and Hubli.
A 300-acre (1.2 km) Special Economic Zone is being set up along the Pune-Bangalore highway to cater to the precision engineering requirements of the global aerospace, automotive and industrial verticals
