Unless you’re a bona fide green thumb, you’ve likely never heard of coco coir before. Pronounced “coco coy-er,” it’s the fibrous husk that comprises the outer layer of a ripe coconut. Gardeners often ...

Coir factories are soon going into a co-branding partnership with furniture players. Coir business is readying to pep up the price-competitiveness of its biggest cash-cow coir geotextiles, by ...

Coir pith has emerged as a major item of foreign exchange earnings in the export basket of the country over the last five years. It has accounted for 50 per cent of coir and coir product exports in ...

The export of coir and coir products from India worth 2,758 crore rupees for 2019-20 has registered an all-time high record. This is around 30 crore rupees higher than that of last year. Over nine ...

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 ...

K.J. Deepthy’s first tryst with coir, known as golden fibre, at a professional level came after she moved to Vayalar, near Cherthala, in Alappuzha 19 years ago. After becoming a member of a coir ...

COIR trade with China is slowly but steadily transforming the industry dynamics, with the export of non-traditional items like coir raw materials and tufted mats increasing at the expense of ...

MADURAI: While many industries recorded a dip in the export of their products after Covid-19, the coir and coir products from India registered an all-time-high record of 11.63 lakh metric tonne, worth ...