A socio-economic incubation project in Kumara Vayalur village promises to empower rural women by training them to draw fibre from the psuedo-stem of the banana plant, a part that is often discarded or ...

Photo caption: A farmer cuts down a banana plant, at her farm, in Kiwenda village, Busukuma, Wakiso District, Uganda, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Photo courtesy AP. A decapitated banana plant is almost ...

In a recent study, researchers explored the use of seawater as a retting agent for banana pseudo-stems, achieving an efficient extraction of natural fibers while conserving freshwater resources. The ...

Uganda’s banana fibre industry may serve as an engine of endogenous growth and transformation, linking industry and agriculture in sustainable and mutually beneficial ways, raising the incomes of ...

The ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB) in Tiruchi will soon offer training in banana fibre extraction and value addition to about 20 women under an initiative of the Khadi and Village ...

A man extracting banana fiber from Banana pseudo stems in Kirinyaga County where the commodity is being used for making handbags , door marts and other tourist attracting commodities [PHOTO:MUNENE ...

Pune, March 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Banana Fiber Market 2022 research report gives experts analysis on the global current market size estimate, market scenario, structure, products, top ...

MUKONO, Uganda (AP) — A decapitated banana plant is almost useless, an inconvenience to the farmer who must then uproot it and lay its dismembered parts as mulch. But can such stems somehow be ...

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