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Kapangan situated on the northern part of Benguet province in the Cordillera Administrative Region of the Philippines. The town started engaging in silk in the 1970s, rekindled in 2005 which eventually became the town’s one town, one product and has the widest mulberry production area of 15.75 hectares is hoping to revive the silk industry in the municipality.

As the industry slowly dwindled because of the lack of raw silk which also slowed down the production of silk products despite the aim to be known as the silk capital of the country in 2007.

Related Keywords: coir, Confederation of the Indian Textile Industry, export incentives, export of fibre crashed, export target, fall short of expansion rate, handicrafts and handloom items, include jute, Indian textile and garment exports, miss initial official growth target, raw cotton

India’s overall textile and garment exports that also include those of jute, coir, handicrafts and handloom items to not only miss the initial official growth target of 15% for 2014-15 but fall short of the 5% expansion rate expected until recently. The government had initially set the export target at $45 billion for 2014-15, compared with the actual exports of $39.3 billion in the previous fiscal.

Related Keywords: Ajay Shankar-led panel, boost exports, but go amiss official target set, coir, handicrafts, including jute, mainly on higher shipment of garments, Make in India concept, of India, Overall textile and garment exports, slowdown in Chinese demand fro cotton and yarn, to increase this fiscal

India‘s overall textile and garment exports, which also include those of jute, coir and handicrafts, likely to increase by 4-5 percent reaching $41 billion this fiscal compared with $39.3 billion a year before mainly on higher shipments of garments and massive slowdown in Chinese demand for cotton and yarn. But, go amiss the official target of $45 billion, trade and industry sources said on Tuesday.

Related Keywords: China, coir, coir product, importer, Indian Coir Board, Kerala, Sri Lanka, USA

China is the biggest importer of coir based products from India. During 2013-14, a total of 192,110 tones of coir products, valued at Rs 360.5 crore were shipped to China, a growth of 32 percent on value terms, according to Indian Coir Board.

India exported 537,040 tones of coir and coir based products, valued at Rs 1476 crore. In the previous financial year, total export was 429,501 tones valued at Rs 1116 crore, a rise by 25 percent was recorded in the volume of coir based products.

Related Keywords: coir, Coir Kerala, global trade event, natural fibers

Coir Kerala has today made its way into an annual trade fair, facilitating not just buyer-seller interactions, but acting as a platform to showcase the newest products and latest technologies and machinery to drive up production and exports. The fourth edition of the world’s biggest trade event on coir and natural fibers will begin in Kerala’s Alappuzha town on Saturday.