COIMBATORE: Post the devastation caused by cyclone Gaja that fell more than 30lakh coconut trees in delta districts, the price of coconut and allied products such as coir pith has gone up, officials ...

Udaiveer Singh has been running a tender coconut stall in Nangal, a city in Punjab, for six years now. He buys 1,200 coconut pieces every six days from an agent in Jalandhar, who, in turn, gets his ...

The Alappuzha-based public sector undertaking, Foam Mattings India Limited (FOMIL), is all set to commercially manufacture slippers and organic manure from coconut pith. FOMIL was sanctioned Rs one ...

Innovation in marketing tender coconut has been his watchword. He has designed special machinery for peeling off the strong pith before despatching them to market. The new shape of the tender coconut ...

National Coir Research and Management Institute (NCRMI) has made a breakthrough in the process of manufacturing coir pith from coir fibre, which could help realize the country’s coir export target of ...

Sri Lanka has lost a long term contract offered by Saudi Arabia to supply a large quantity of coco peat (sterilised coir) worth millions of dollars due to official bungling and corruption, an official ...

Spurt in demand for coir pith has resulted in higher prices for coir fibre and husks in Pollachi in Coimbatore district. Pollachi, known for its coconut groves, has over 60 coir exporting units and ...

KOCHI : Researchers at the National Coir Research and Management Institute (NCRMI) have come out with yet another product making use of the humble coconut husk. Cocoaura, an organic air freshener ...