COIMBATORE: No one would have imagined the scale of India's, and indeed the world's, dependence on China for solar panels, man-made fibre, electronics among various other products. The fact has become ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a significant intervention to revive Kerala’s struggling coir sector, the state government has announced the formation of a yarn bank to tackle the acute shortage of coir fibre.

Aiming to stop the procuring of coir fibre from neighbouring states such as Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, the state government is planning to increase the availability of fibre in state by active ...

Kerala Budget, presented on February 2, had assured a second restructuring plan for coir sector, with a plan omnibus to the tune of Rs 1,200 crore for coir industry. (IE) Coir sector in Kerala has ...

Have you ever wondered what happens to the husk of coconut trees? If not, then it is time you plan a trip to the International Coir Museum in Alappuzha in the state of Kerala. Set amid the lazy ...

Vasudevan K., 65, was born into a family of coir workers at Aryad, near Alappuzha. His first tryst with the golden fibre at a professional level came when he joined a chaapra (coir products ...

Remember the olden days when every house had its own coir rope cots, people used to sit around in the verandah and chit-chat. The coir products were really ‘in’ then. From rope cots to mattings, to ...

Disposal of harmful coir fibre waste produced by industrial units that extract and use coir fibre has been a serious environmental issue in the State. The National Institute for Interdisciplinary ...

In a bid to address the growing problem of coir fibre shortage in the coir industry, engineers in Kerala have developed a new portable machine that can extract high quality coir fibre from green ...

A seminar organised on Friday in connection with the Coir Kerala 2021, an expo on coir and natural fibre products, stressed the need for constituting cooperative consortiums to ensure the availability ...

The Coir Board will establish a 'fibre bank' in Alappuzha to address the shortage of coir fibre in the market, said G Balachandran, chairman of the Board. KOCHI: The Coir Board will establish a 'fibre ...