National Technical Textiles Mission sets up demo farms for agro textiles

Key Highlights

• In agro textiles, the use of value-added nets, which are made in India, is becoming popular.
• If an agricultural university in south India comes forward, a demonstration farm can be set up in the south too, he said.
• The Mission has signed MoUs with 45 educational institutes to teach technical textiles to students in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including courses on geo textiles for civil engineering students.
• So far, 130 of the 240 students are placed in technical textile industries.
• The textile research associations and skill development councils also offer short-term training in technical textiles and have, so far, trained 1,400 candidates.