Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured all possible assistance for the development of coir industry in the country.

Appreciating the active participation of stakeholders from coir-producing states, especially Kerala and Tamil Nadu, in the India International Coir Fair 2016, and the efforts of the Coir Board to promote the four-day fair which recently concluded here, the Prime Minister assured necessary assistance to the coir industry during a meeting with Coir Board Chairman C P Radhakrishnan in New Delhi.

Radhakrishnan apprised Modi of the current scenario of the industry in the country and stressed the need for a paradigm shift in the advancement of technology in the industry, a release from the board said.

The Chairman also presented a portrait of the Prime Minister, made out of a coir mat, as a memento to him. The piece of work made by Travancore Cocotuft, a leading coir exporter at Cherthala in Kerala, had attracted lakhs of people who visited the fair, it said.

Source: Money Control