Around 9,000 square metres of coir geo-textile have been used with bamboo pegs and check dams to protect meadows and to prevent soil erosion, officials said. Uttarakhand’s forest department is using ...

Coir Board of India to display eco-friendly Coir Geotextiles at the 2015 edition Concurrent Symposium to bring subject experts of machinery, raw material, nonwoven and technical textile for annual ...

Trade fairs are a great opportunity for people to showcase unique handicrafts from all over the world. With India International Trade Fair happening at the Pragati Maidan, New Delhi currently, many ...

Buoyed by its progress in implementing the coir geo textile project, local body authorities have launched the next phase of the project in Pathanamthitta. Officials said this new phase has started in ...

KOCHI: To create more employment opportunities in the traditional coir industry, the government will implement product diversification and initiate steps to expand the market, said Chief Minister ...

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 few mining majors used geo-textiles to arrest erosion on their dumps but scientists and others see more scope for soil bioengineering as more than 50 million tones of rejection is produced every ...

A total 475 works using coir geotextile have been identified in 71 grama panchayats in the district at an estimated cost of ₹10 crore under the joint auspices of the Poverty Alleviation Unit here, ...

KOCHI: The Coir Board is planning to consolidate its presence in South Africa by targeting the growing market for coir products in the African nation, which is pegged at 1055.53 tonnes. KOCHI: The ...

Urging governor Mridula Sinha to direct chief secretary S K Srivastava to conduct an inquiry into ‘the illegal functioning of the non-existent department of handicraft, textile and coir in the state ...