MSME Minister inaugurates Coir Board Pavilion at IITF 2024
Union Minister for Micro, Small
& Medium Enterprises (MSME), Jitan Ram Manjhi, inaugurated the “COIR Board
Pavilion” at the 43rd India International Trade Fair-IITF in Hall No 14,
ITPO, Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi today. He was accompanied by senior officials
from the Ministry of MSME and Coir Board.
Coir Board
Pavilion is having participation from 28 nos. of exhibitors from various parts
of the country which depicts the skill and craftsmanship of coir workers in
producing a variety of handmade products and handicrafts like toy, ornaments
etc. The range displayed at the pavilion includes traditional coir products
like handloom coir mat, mattings, Rubberized Mattress, handicraft coir
products, carpets, coir pith, coir geo-textiles, etc.
The fair
offers opportunity to entrepreneurs engaged in Coir sector to showcase their
products to a very large pool of potential customers and create new avenues for
growth and self-reliance.
Jitan Ram Manjhi visited the stalls of 2 Research
Institutes of Coir Board i.e. Central
Coir Research Institute (CCRI) and Central Institute of Coir Technology
(CICT) in the pavilion wherein the newly developed
machines/technologies/products were exhibited and interacted with the
exhibitors. Live demonstrations on the Application of Coir Geotextiles for soil
erosion control, Coir pith composting using PITHPLUS, Cocolawn, Mobile Fibre
Extraction Machine (MFEM) etc are exhibited in the CCRI stall.
Coir
Board’s participation at IITF 2024 underscores its commitment to raising public
awareness of the Coir sector and its role in achieving a developed nation by
2047.