Date:07/01/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/01/07/stories/2008010757460200.htm

Kerala

Money-spinner

—Photo: K.K. Mustafah

Wheel of fortune: A worker engaged in making coir in a manufacturing unit in Alappuzha. The State contributes 80 per cent of the country’s total coir product export.