1 | Name Of Cluster | Singampunari Coir |
2 | Place | Singampunari |
3 | District | Sivaganga |
4 | State | Tamil Nadu |
5 | No of firms (by type) | Tamilnadu |
6 | No. of workers | Tamilnadu |
7 | Turnover(Rs in Million's) | Tamilnadu |
8 | Associations in cluster | Singai Coir Cluster P. Ltd. |
9 | Major products | Coir rope, coir yarn, low quality mats, |
10 | Specific and relevant technical institutions (R&D, Testing Lab accredited) |
DIC, Sivaganga |
11 | Major markets | Within India Tamilnadu Outside India- Europe and America for tufted mats |
12 | Major problems/prospects | Acute dearth of formal institutional finance Inadequate marketing approach to tap inland as well as export Lack of product diversification Low value of products are generally manufactured Lack of BDS for growth Large number of firms are based in household in the highly sub contracted cluster |
13 | Data source and updated on | Coir Board (June 2008) |