Here are the Chinese boxes. Please note some of them are made from banana leaves. Kay remembers that the people who cut the trees down came into the factory and then became the work force for box making. One of the boxes was exported to Japan to be used as a take-a-way lunch box for the everyday work force – probably making Honda cars with lots of plastic trims. Why not banana dash boards on bamboo chassis?. I hope you find these boxes exciting.
I do! I've cropped the images to emphasis the aspects that I'll sprinkle about on FACEbook etc.
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- http://www.dacclothing.in/index.php/banana-fibre
- https://www.exportersindia.com/raja-exports/banana-fiber-shirts-thanjavur-india-96835.htm
- http://hellofromdavao.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/banana-fiber-from-sto-tomas-export-hit.html
- https://aththammageathbeheth.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/24.html
- https://www.tradeindia.com/manufacturers/banana-fibre.html
- https://www.exportersindia.com/indian-suppliers/banana-fibre-products.htm
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Enset, the 'false banana'
Tuesday, 03 June 2014
Enset (Ensete ventricosum) is a member of the same botanical family as the banana, but unlike its cousin it’s not grown for its fruit. The main edible parts of the enset plant are the starchy rhizome and pseudostem. Even though the 'false banana' is native to the highlands of eastern and southern Africa, the domesticated types are virtually unknown outside Ethiopia, where it is a staple for nearly 15 million people in the southwestern part of the country. Earlier this year, a team of British and Ethiopian scientists published a draft genome sequence for enset by using the reference sequence for Musa acuminata as a template onto which they aligned their fragments of DNA, an approach similar to the one used to produce a draft genome sequence for Musa balbisiana. For more information on the crop, browse the Musalit records on Ensete ventricosum and downpload the PDF of The "Tree against hunger".
Tuesday, 03 June 2014
Enset (Ensete ventricosum) is a member of the same botanical family as the banana, but unlike its cousin it’s not grown for its fruit. The main edible parts of the enset plant are the starchy rhizome and pseudostem. Even though the 'false banana' is native to the highlands of eastern and southern Africa, the domesticated types are virtually unknown outside Ethiopia, where it is a staple for nearly 15 million people in the southwestern part of the country. Earlier this year, a team of British and Ethiopian scientists published a draft genome sequence for enset by using the reference sequence for Musa acuminata as a template onto which they aligned their fragments of DNA, an approach similar to the one used to produce a draft genome sequence for Musa balbisiana. For more information on the crop, browse the Musalit records on Ensete ventricosum and downpload the PDF of The "Tree against hunger".
Banana is amongst those plants considered 'most useful' but largely ignored by the 'the developed world'.
LINKS
- https://ziveliblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/natural-fibres/
- http://www.ecoideaz.com/innovative-green-ideas/producing-banana-fiber-and-paper-from-waste
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIcsyLTFugg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_MedSN1_U0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HF3GuGUhWI
IMAGES COURTESY Chris & Kay Harmen Tasmania from their 2015 visit to China and the town where Chris was born.
The photos are from January 2015 in the factory Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China. The two blonde-haired women in the photos are Chris’s sisters from the UK who joined Chris & Kay in HK for the 4-week journey into China, particularly to their birth places – Chris in Xiamen and the two girls in Zhangzhou.
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