1 | Name Of Cluster | Srikakulam Coir |
2 | Place | Srikakulam |
3 | District | Srikakulam |
4 | State | Andhra Pradesh |
5 | No of firms (by type) | 538 Micro Enterprises |
6 | No. of workers | 7020 |
7 | Turnover(Rs in Million's) | Rs. 50 Million |
8 | Associations in cluster | Nil |
9 | Major products | Fibre, Yarn, Rope, Curled Fibre, Matress |
10 | Specific and relevant technical institutions (R&D, Testing Lab accredited) |
Coir Board, Rajahmundry |
11 | Major markets | Domestic: Hyderabad, Orissa, Bengal, Maharshtra Exports: No visible direct exports observed in the cluster |
12 | Major problems/prospects | Obsolete technology in yarn winding, weak marketing effort/ linkages among artisans Higher cost of production lack of collective effort in input sourcing/ marketing Poor infra facilities |
13 | Data source and updated on | DSR and progress reports submitted to Coir Board by APITCO (Year : 2011) |