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• Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise, Annual Report, 2012-13.
   
• FAOSTAT (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Economic and Social Department: The Statistical Division.). Last Accessed on 30th August, 2014.
   
• Coir Board (1953). The Coir Industry Act, 1953, No. 45 of 1953. Government of India, Kochi.
   
• Coir Board and Coir Board’s Annual Report, 2010-11 & 2012-13.
   
• Unnithan, K. B. (1970). Coir Industry in India with Special Reference to Marketing and Trade. Cochin: Coir Board.
   
• Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise, Annual Report, 2013-14,
   
• http://www.coconutboard.gov.in
   
• http://www.madehow.com/Volume-6/Coir.html#ixzz3KlpxXQrp
   
• http://coirboard.nic.in/downloads/mahilacoiryojana.pdf
   
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  http://www.indcom.tn.gov.in/ indus_coop_societies.htm
   
• Sharma, R. (2012). Problems and Prospects of Small Scale Industrial Units (A case study of exporting and non – exporting units in Haryana). Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing & Management Review, 1(2),191-210.
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• http://coirboard.nic.in/about_coirfiber.htm

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