which would be equally disastrous to the state and the coir workers. To reinforce this argument, the employers and their' representatives have been pointing to the prospect of a fall in foreign exchange earnings due to decline in foreign demand for coir. Now that the cost of production of synthetic coir has gone up as a result of the rise in oil prices, this argument no longer has the same force.
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