Bananas are among the most popular fruits in Kenya. Harvested bananas either raw or ripe, bananas are usually prone to spoilage and wastage if in plenty and not consumed on time. This calls for banana ...

A group of farmers, entrepreneurs, and rural youth from Namakkal district underwent a two-day training on banana fibre and value addition at ICAR–National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB), Tiruchi, ...

Like many other banana farmers, Mohamed Poothalaparambil also used to discard the trunk or pseudostem after harvesting the banana. But, not anymore. The 65-year-old farmer from Vazhakkad panchayat in ...

When women of Wefahson Banana Cooperative Society in Nyamira county first learnt that banana stems could be turned into fibre, they were skeptical. Today, they can barely keep up with the demand for ...

One flagship initiative is mango value addition, which converts surplus mangoes into juice, frozen pulp, and other processed ...