KOCHI: The year 2009 is being observed as the ‘International Year of Natural Fibre’ by the UNO. For the same reason, the manufacture and export of coir and coir products is gaining prominence like ...

A craft cluster is set to come up in Kendrapara district to help coir artisans produce and market their products. Representative image Kendrapada: A craft cluster is set to come up in Kendrapara ...

We often use coir footmats in our homes. Here’s an exhibition that takes this basic material to another level — with innovative designs in earrings, lamps, chandeliers, photo and mirror frames, mobile ...

International Coir Tech Expo 2012, a first-of-its-kind initiative from the Coir Board, under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, began here on Sunday. The five-day expo, at Marine ...

The coir and craft stores to be opened by the Kudumbashree in association with the local bodies across the State will ensure jobs for several women entrepreneurs and create a market for traditional ...

Coir is most available natural fibre but invasion of plastic rendered thousands jobless Coir industry is among the biggest traditional industries in Kerala, employing more than 200,000 artisans, ...

The Kudumbashree Mission will pilot two Coir and Craft stores in the State to provide a market for products manufactured by industries such as coir that employ women in large numbers. The stores are ...

Artist Laxmi M. Swain prepares a cotton prototype for a coir toy in Satasankha village, Orissa. Medhavi Gandhi was just 22 when she and two friends co-founded the Happy Hands Foundation, a Delhi-based ...