The National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB) would conduct training programmes on value added products from banana, banana fibre extraction and handicrafts making and post-harvest handling and ...

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 ...

The National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST) here has developed the technology for extracting banana fibre from pseudo stems... Advisory Alert: It has come to our ...

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 ...

Even the waste should not be wasted. This seems to be the motto of a large number of people, mostly women, of Bihar's Vaishali district who are making a living out of the trunks of banana trees. When ...

Potosi, St Thomas – Members of the St Thomas Women’s Agricultural Initiative have started a banana fibre project on their 12-hectare farm in the community of Potosi, through which they are providing ...

Twenty people from different weaving cooperatives across the country yesterday concluded a ten–day workshop in Kigali on banana fibre handcrafts. The workshop that was organized by the Workforce ...

The banana stem is considered to be of less value compared to other parts of the banana. Some see it as a feed for livestock; others use it to make compost or mulch. Bur banana stems can be much more ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A man extracting banana fiber from Banana pseudo stems in Kirinyaga County where the ...