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 ...

Namakkal farmers receive training on banana fibre extraction and value addition, boosting entrepreneurship and income ...

Banana farmers have for many years only eaten or sold the fruit and discarded its stem. Unknowingly, they have been trashing a valuable part of the plant known for its high fibre. In Kirinyaga County ...

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 ...

The SME Mauritius Ltd is conducting a two-week hands-on skills training, from the 23 April to 10th May 2019, under the Foreign Technical Expertise Scheme (FTES) in Banana fibre extraction and ...