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.

Chinese coir mats made from Indian fibre may soon be a real threat as the communist nation takes home increasing quantity of coir fibre. According to estimates of the Coir Board, fibre exports to ...

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 ...

Coir exports from the country are seen lower for the first time in both traditional and non-traditional items. For the first quarter of the current fiscal, exports are lower in volume and value by ...

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 ...

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 fibre industry in Pollachi has seen a 50 per cent decline in domestic supply and a 30 per cent reduction in exports leaving thousands of people jobless. COIMBATORE: The coir fibre industry in ...

The Lion’s Face, an exquisite creation made of coconut coir fibre by a group of craftswomen of a tiny hamlet of Janupalli panchayat in Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Konaseema district in Andhra Pradesh, is set ...

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 ...

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 ...