NCRMI: Championing the Growth and Sustainability of the Coir Industry.

NCRMI strives to be a leading organization fostering the sustainable development and growth of the coir industry.

Core Objectives:

Socio-economic Development:

  • Ensure basic services and a healthy work environment for coconut fibre sector workers.
  • Promote fiscal sustainability for continuous development and upliftment of the sector.
  • Address social issues and support self-help groups in the sector.


Industry Growth and Competitiveness:

  • Create an enabling environment for industry growth and diversification.
  • Optimise husk utilisation for high-value products and reduced waste.
  • Undertake research on continuous raw material availability, improved utilisation, and yarn quality.
  • Research and implement technology advancements to enhance productivity, quality, and cost-effectiveness (including research on reducing production costs).
  • Develop and refine technologies in defibering, grading, and handlooms to improve efficiency, quality, and reduce drudgery.
  • Foster innovation in coconut fibre softening and product development for wider market acceptance.


Knowledge Management and Capacity Building:

  • Act as a knowledge centre for coconut fibre information, sharing resources, and fostering collaboration with national and international institutions.
  • Provide extension services to workers at the panchayat level on technology, trends, and best practices.
  • Offer management training and exposure to export practices for coir societies.
  • Undertake capacity building programs for various stakeholders in technology, management, and marketing.
  • Identify and train promising researchers to contribute to industry development.


Sustainability and Environmental Protection:

  • Implement research on improved and environmentally friendly wet processing techniques in dyeing and bleaching.
  • Explore and utilize coir by-products, focusing on pith utilization.
  • Develop and implement research and training programs to improve health and safety standards in accordance with WTO requirements.


Market Facilitation and Trade Partnerships:

  • Act as a nodal agency for sourcing research funds.
  • Create awareness about intellectual property rights (IPRs), contractual obligations, and international trade issues for the industry.
  • Facilitate trade relations between small-scale producers, exporters, and raw material suppliers.


Entrepreneurship Development:

  • Equip students with technical and management skills to become competitive entrepreneurs in the coconut fibre sector.

NCRMI - Objectives

Ensuring assured level of basic services to the people working in the coconut fibre sector
  • Building an enabling environment for growth for the sector
  • Achieving fiscal sustainability of the sector enabling continuous development
  • Optimum utilization of available quality husks for the production of high valued products
  • Undertake consulting for improvement of the industry in terms of product value additions, diversification in coconut fibres in the lines of other natural fibre industries and evolving marketing strategies for export/ domestic (rural) markets etc.
  • Undertake transfer of technology for POC and acceptance amongst the industry about new generation value added products
  • Act as a knowledge centre for all information relating to policy directions, sharing of ideas, new product developments, market intelligence, improvements in the industry, technology innovations, product trends, trade practices and all other areas in coconut fibre through interaction, co-ordination and networking with other institutions of national and international repute and not to duplicate efforts
  • Extension activities for people working in the coconut fibre sector at panchayat level on technology development, current trends etc.
  • Exposure and extending management trainings for the societies in the export arena
  • Act as a nodal agency for sourcing funds for research programmes
  • Undertake capacity building in the industry to all types of stakeholders in various areas like technology, management, marketing etc.
  • Identify new talents and skills in research for development and impart training to equip the industry
  • Create awareness amongst the coconut-fibre industry on new IPRs, contractual obligations, and international trade related issues
  • Research on continuous availability, better utilization of raw material and production of better quality yarn.
  • Research on Technology interventions to improve productivity and quality.
  • Research on improved and environment friendly wet processes in dyeing and bleaching to improve colour / rub fastness.
  • Research on utility of bye-products with particular reference to pith.
  • Research and Training programs for industries - to improve health and safety standards in accordance with human rights compliance requirements of WTO.
  • Initiate research on “reduction cost of production” to improve cost competitiveness (Productivity, quality).
  • Refinement of technology (in defibreing & grading) Innovation (in conventional handlooms) to improve productivity, quality and reduce drudgery.
  • To study and serve as an intermediate body to improve the trade relations between small-scale producers and exporters, raw material suppliers.
  • Innovation in Softening of coconut fibres leading to larger acceptability of coconut fibre products
  • Undertake Quality Certification of raw materials, intermediate products and FP along the value chain.
  • Address social issues relating to the coconut fibre sector and incorporation of self help groups contributing to the continuous and sustainable upliftment.
  • To impart technical and management skills as well as enabling students and groom them to be a competitive entrepreneur enabling them to manage their own organization.