Buyers from 110 nations have assembled to source home, lifestyle, fashion, furniture and textiles products from around 3,200 Indian exhibitors at the 48th edition of the Indian Handicrafts and Gifts Fair (IHGF) at the India Expo Mart in Greater Noida.
Indian textiles secretary Ravi Capoor inaugurated the five-day fair and said that the country’s handicrafts industry has the potential to raise exports in that sector to ₹ 100,000 crore from ₹26,590 crore now.
He urged the Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts to explore the possibility of opening handicraft parks in the country and develop those as tourism and crafts centres.
