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 ...

A student from Balochistan has earned international recognition for developing an innovative method to produce natural fiber ...

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 ...

Sarfraz’s project stood out for its ability to convert agricultural waste into high-quality, environmentally friendly fiber.

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MUKONO, Uganda (AP) — A decapitated banana ...

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