Coir Shippers Council seeks bigger Plan share
The Coir Shippers Council has suggested that substantial assistances may be set apart in the Eleventh Plan for existing traditional factories in the State to convert themselves into mechanised units.
But till such transformation is achieved, the traditional sector of the coir industry should be given all necessary assistance to survive, Mr K.C. Eapen, Member Secretary of the Council said at the workshop on 11th Five Year Plan programmes in coir sector here.
The Kerala coir industry, he said is still continues in the traditional pattern. The industry is passing through a period of revolution and what had been a handloom industry is now becoming a highly sophisticated mechanised one, he added.
Even though schemes for the development of the coir industry had been evolved from the first Five-Year Plan onwards, these did not benefit the workers in total. Considering this, he pointed out that future programmes for the development of the coir industry should involve all sectors in the industry most specifically the private sector.
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