Over Rs 30 crore worth of business has been affected in this major textile town in Tamil Nadu due to the "unrest" in Andhra Pradesh for the past 12 days and non-operation of lorries to that state, R S Natarasa Mudaliar, President, Erode Handloom Cloth Merchants Association said today.
He said textile producers and traders usually receive minimum of Rs 50 crore worth orders from Andhra Pradesh,mainly from Kurnool, Kadappa, Tirupathi, Chitoor, Pakala and Telengana area, including Hyderabad, during Magara Sankaranthi season in middle of January.
But this year they had received only Rs 15 crore order in November and just Rs five crore worth of goods were delivered.