Tag: Coir Board

Gandhi Jayanti Special: Evolving a Swachh Bharat with the spearheads of MSMEs

National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) brought together the  MSME leaders who paid rich tribute to the father of the nation on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, and swept clean the path ahead for MSMEs. To help fulfill Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of ‘Clean India’, Union MSME Minister Kalraj Mishr…

Skill development centre on coir soon

A skill development centre for finishing works on coir products will be started in Alappuzha district soon. Efforts are under way to launch the centre within a month or so, Minister for Finance and Coir T.M. Thomas Isaac said here on September 21. He was inaugurating an office of Coir Mark of the…

Coir Board bullish on export potential

Given the export growth rate in value-added products of coir, the crisis-ridden coconut sector can look to the coir segment for additional returns. Coir Board Chairman CP Radhakrishnan said that the rise in exports of value-added products such as coir geo-textiles and pith in the last fiscal year…

Coir Board to build coir wood houses

In an effort to recycle coir waste, Coir Board is looking at eco-friendly shelters that will replace tents for security guards and defence personnel in high altitudes. The Coir Research Centre in Bengaluru has developed a model house made out of coir wood and it was displayed at the coir fair her…

Coir Board chief calls for wider use of coir wood

Coir Board Chairman CP Radhakrishnan has appealed to the participants of India International Coir Festival (IICF) 2016 to use coir wood and stop cutting of trees. Coir composite or coir wood is made using coir fibre bonded with thermosetting adhesive, which is a replacement for wood and plywood. …

Technology for bio-conversion of coir pith into manure

Researchers in Coir Board have developed a technology for bio-conversion of coir pith into an organic manure, which has the quality of replacing urea, a top official of the Board said. The Allapuzha Research Centre of the board has come out with the technology by which Coir Pith Organic Manure ca…

Mission approach to improve skills of youngsters | Giriraj Singh

Union Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Giriraj Singh has underscored the need for greater participation by entrepreneurs in small and medium industries. The Centre is in the process of setting incubation centres for these enterprises in all the districts in a phased manne…

Coir exports set to exceed last year’s Rs. 1,630 crore

The recessionary trends in the overseas markets seem to have not deterred coir exports from the country, as the sector continues to register a better performance in the last few consecutive years. The coir sector has fetched an export revenue of Rs. 1,630 crore in the last fiscal against Rs. 1,47…