Areca leaf plates training for unemployed youth in north eastern india........

Areca leaf plates training for unemployed youth in north eastern india was organized by Neitco[North Eastern industiral technical training institute]&Ecogreenunit at Guwahati in assam on oct 2010.The unemployed youth from all over north east [250 persons]participated.Areca leaves is an agrowaste which is shreaded from the areca nut trees converted as a value added products in south india.Due to North East its a New Project ,more over the raw materials are available in plenty due to vast area of areca nut plantations in entire North East.EcoGreenunit has taken an initiative to promote this particular project in entire North East.The training was given on identifying of raw material,Soaking and cleaning of the raw material,Technical Know-how,making of plates ,marketing the finished products etc.The Goverments of Assam,Manipur,Megalaya,Mizoram,Nagaland,Tripura,Arunachal Pradesh,Sikkim are intrested in implementing the areca leaf project by providing the self employment.Banks are intrested to give loans for such kind of ecofreindly projects in North East.EcoGreenUnit Team has finalized the discussions with the Governments to start the project in north east and its an on going programme .......