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 ...

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 ...

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 ...