The abacá plant grows without needing lots of water or pesticides, helps stop erosion, and is now being used to replace fossil fuels in clothes. This sleek backpack now available in stores in ...

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

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 ...

There’s big money in pineapple and banana fibers, which are commonly regarded as wastes. Like the fiber of abaca, those of pineapple and banana are good materials in making Philippine tropical fabric ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...