A Common Facility Centre giving traditional craft clusters shared machinery, training, design help, and market access.
Malappuram has 26,998 manufacturing MSMEs. 60.8% of self-employment loans go to the district's top industry. The Common Facility Centre under SFURTI gives artisan clusters shared equipment they could not afford individually.
73% of registered enterprises are in services while 27% are in manufacturing. Small and medium enterprises account for 5.8% of MSME employment. Enrolment in classes 9 to 12 equals 100% of the population of that age.
In Malappuram, which ranks 11 of 14 in Kerala for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 53.7 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on employment in small and medium enterprises at 5.8%, against 3.3% nationally and value added per enterprise worker at ₹1,85,859, against ₹1,43,689 nationally.