Design Development workshop on Banana fibre

Inspection by Mr.Santhana krishnan,investigator ,O/o Development Commissioner[Handi Crafts]

women undergoing training in new prototypes


Design Development Workshop for our cluster artisans who are into AHVY Scheme was conducted on 09.12.11 to 23.12.11 . 30 women artisans participated and got trained in new protypes.Empanelled designer Mr.Karthik Developed and trained about the new prototypes.The dean from Agricultural university Rwanda,visited the workshop and appreciated the works of ecogreenunit.The programme was sponsored by O/o Development Commissioner,Handi Crafts,Minstry of textiles,Govt Of India

Office Cum training centre opening at Kanchi Puram

An Office cum training Centre for Areca leaf plates project/Banana fibre project/Handi Crafts/paper bag making/bee keeping was opened at Kanchi Puram on 18.12.11.Particularly it will focus on Self Help Group Women/Entrepreneurs/Farmers to promote them in above mentioned activites and improve their livly hood activites through our projects.

Honoured by the District Collector

There was a function in Tiruppur,regarding handicrafts,The programme was conducted and sponsored by O/o Development Commissioner Handi crafts,Salem office, The programme was innaugurated by the District Collector Shri Madivanan IAS.Near about 200 artisans were presented ,DDM,Nabard,LDM,Tiruppur,GM,District Industries Centre were presided the function.ECOGREENUNIT was honoured by the District Collector for its efforts in Handi Crafts Sector.

Banana fibre project at wynad,kerala

District Collector of Wyanad,Kerala Shri .GopalaKrishna Bhatt IAS
Inaugurated the function

A Breif Lecture on Banana fibre Crafts .

Yes it was a useful ceminar for the entreprenuers and farmers in wyanad District.Kerala,for banana fibre extraction and crafts,250 participants were present ,the media coverage was a mega reach out for the programme.

international film festival at goa................

our stall at international film festival in goa,

A press meet

with emenient marathi actor milind shinde

a photograph with pandit Rajansharma&pandit sajan sharma,the classic music legends,who are into vocal & tradational music of India,named Benares Gharana,their film Advait Sangeet was screened in the festival.

This is with most respectable emeninet director M.S.Sathyu.

Yes it was fun,films and good times in the 42nd international film festival goa,this time many feature films,3Dfilms,animations,documentaries,short films was screened.We met emeninet film personalites and also conducted a pressmeet to promote our COMMUNITY CINEMA TRUST&about the short film festival at coimbatore

American Consulate Officers visit to our office

Yes........this day we had a previlage of the visitors from American consulate General,Chennai.Mr.Matthew K.Beh,Political/Economic Officer&Mrs.Kamala Chatterji visited our projects[training units/paper making unit/areca leaf plates making unit/Banana fibre extraction unit/agro tourism Destination] and appreciated our efforts particularly in Womens empowerment& in agro based projects

paper carry bag training at a interior thoda village in nilgiris........

a walk through jungle to reach the village


thoda ladies who attended the training

Training on paper bags.

Yes it was a wonderful journey and a joyful experience in a thoda village in nilgiris ,we trained near about 50 women in paper bag making.its an ongoing programme..........

North East monsoons.........

rainy clouds in our village[sethumadai]

a stream flow of rain water in this rainy season

a greeny wet coconut garden

yes this is the season of north east monsoon which flows heavily in our area,[sethumadai village,pollachi.]

Our stall at Dinamalar smart shoppers expo.coimbatore

A stall exposure was given in Dinamalar expo at coimbatore,there was 1.75lac vistors and a mega reach out for our agro based projects.

Vijaya Dasami..................

A Front view of a zamin house


A Tree Top sit out at our organic farm

a tradational house

goddess saraswathi statue

a durbar hall in a zamin house

A trip to our village & a zamin house on vijyadasmi occasion.................

A Tradational ZaminDhar House............

Yes it is a Tradational ZaminDhar House built in 1927,which is the area of 1acre sorrounding with 3 floors and tradational artisitc wood work in interior inclusive of 35 rooms with swimming pool,darbar hall &more.......

Banana fibre extraction project at Gulbargha

Banana fibre is dipped in a tray which is of Bio Enzymes,This process gives a qualtiy &clean fibre


The Team behind the project



Banana fibre extraction at gulbargha

The plaintain bends are pealed for fibre extraction

Banana stems are ready for fibre extraction.

We Have started banana fibre extraction project at Gulbargha , Northern Karnataka,were bananas are abudantly grown,this particular project will be useful& an income generation for the farmers in northern karnataka .

an innovation...............

A machinery for cutting vegitables & curry leaves was innovated by our R&D Wing,particularly this machinery can be used in small scale food processing units& in hotel industry.

our stall at gandhi shilp bazzar

Development Commissioner,Handi Crafts visits our stall and impressed by our products which was manufactured by AHVY Cluster Artisans in Coimbatore rural.


Gandhi Shilp Bazzar an artisan crafts fair was conducted by O/o Development Commissioner,Handi Crafts,Ministry of textiles,Govt Of India at Coimbatore.we had a stall for banana fibre crafts and there was a good exposure for our products among the public.

our stall at INTRA 2011

We have launched Agro Tourism Project in the brand name of WILD NEST in sethumadai village in anaimalai tiger Reserve ,to promote the project we put a stall at India Travel & living Expo which was held at Coddissia Trade Fair Complex in Coimbatore from 12th to 15th Aug 2011 .Mr.Sridhar IAS,Sec ,MSME,innaugurated the stall and appreciated our efforts in tourism project,there was a good number of response from the visitors for this venture.

our stall at Crafts Council of Tamil Nadu

There was a crafts fair conducted by Crafts Council of Tamil Nadu,at Ramakrishna Kalyana Mandapam, at coimbatore from 3rd to 9th august,we show cased our banana fibre crafts which has been made by our rural women groups in tamil nadu.

AGRI INTEX,CODISSIA,COIMBATORE

The Mega Agricultural Event was conducted by TNAU&CODISSIA at Trade fair complex
in Coimbatore from 28th to 31st july .Ecogreenunit exhbited a stall for agrobased areca leaf plates and banana fibre projects and show cased the by products.Near about 1,50,000 farmers visited the fair and gained the knowledge in latest technologies in the agri cultural sector.Mr.Ayyapan ,Director General,ICAR,New Delhi was the cheif guest,Mr.Murgesa Boopathi,Vice Chancellor ,Tamil Nadu agricultural university with the chief guest visited our TNAU office and appreciated our projects.

Skill upgradation training programme for rural women artisans

We have started Skill upgradation training programmes for Rural artisans who are into banana fibre crafts practising in coimbatore rural sector,its a 4 months course for 5 artisan groups. this particular programmes will improve the skill of the artisans in natural fibre sector.The programmes are sponsored by O/o Development Commissioner,Handi Crafts,Govt Of India.