Light industry in the Krai is represented by clothes, footwear and knitted goods enterprises as well as a leather haberdashery factory. Its share in the total output of consumer goods is 30%.
The range of the goods produced comprises of clothing (overcoats, suits, shirts, dresses, coats, raincoats, etc.), knitted goods (knitted outer clothing and underwear, sportswear and hosiery), footwear (made of leather, textile and felt) and haberdashery (gloves, bags, knap sacks). The light industry enterprises are concentrated in the cities of Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Bikin.
The Food Industry of the Khabarovsk Krai is represented by a group of over 60 different enterprises of meat and dairy, flour processing, butter, confectionery, winery, baking and other industries which make up 40% of food stuffs turnover. On the average, the enterprises of the food industry manufacture annually 12 thousand tons of vegetable oil, 20 thousand tons of margarine products, 25 thousand tons of confectionery products, 130 thousand tons of whole milk products, 2 million dekaliters of soft drinks and 1.8 million dekaliters of alcoholic beverages.
At the same time, the Territory is experiencing a decline in the capability to process canned vegetables and baby food. Development of the food industry relies substantially upon exported food stuffs which is a strong limiting factor in food production. Flour grinding, cereal, baking, butter, confectionery, wine making and pasta producing sub- industries, which rely on materials exported entirely from outside the Krai, are dependent thereupon to a considerable extent.
The process of authorization and privatization of enterprises is growing - 80% of all Food Industry enterprises have become joint-stock companies.
Fisn harvesting and processing in the Krai are done by catching and processing enterprises and by 27 collective fishing farms, the largest of which is a joint-stock company, "Sea Resources," accounting for 30-40% of the total fish catch.
The fishing, transport and tug fleet consist of more than 80 vessels, including large refrigerated trawlers that also produce fish products.
Alaskan pollock, cod, flatfish, herring, saury, salmon, laminaria, crab, shrimp, squid and others are caught in the Khabarovsk Krai.
Coastal fish processing enterprises are located in Okhotski, Nikolaevski and Ulchski Districts, and also in Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Fish harvesting is done in the fishery water areas. The prospects of the fish industry development are associated with the renovation of the catching fleet, expanding the repairing and fish processing capacities, as well as restructuring the production output in accordance with market demands by the development and re-equipping of the coastal fish processing base. In solving the problem of decreasing fish reserves, the most efficient direction seems to be the artificial reproduction of valuable fish species, and also the creation of favorable conditions for the reproduction of river fish in inner reservoirs.
A lot of companies from the Asian-Pacific Region show a great interest to cooperate in the field of the fishing industry. A number of joint ventures have already been set up and successfully operate within the Krai.