Among the ancient plantations man kind do "Banana" is one of the most

important plantation. Approximately around 120 countries banana is

grown. In the area of cultivation and yield India occupies the 1st Place. In
India Tamilnadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, and
Karala are the largest Banana crop growing states.

So far the banana cultivators are able to earn by banana vegetables, fruit,
and leaves only. Usually banana former dispose the waste of the trunk
after cutting the bunch of fruit. Added to that, the expenditure for
disposing the waste trunk is heavy. In some areas these trunks are cut in
to small pieces and are used as organic manure in the same field. In our
country around 40 crores of banana trunk is disposed as waste. Banana
fibre can be extracted from stems, leaf stalks and peduncle. This Banana
Fibre gives lot of profit.

For the first time in India, the Banana fibre extractor unit improved
quality with best material is developed by an Indian company. Earlier
machines were not that quality and the important part of the machine is
blades. Earlier machines used MS blades and they get rusted in shot
period. Now our machine is developed with SS Blades which will hot have
any problem as well as zero maintains. With the help of this machine
formers can be benefited by easily extracting the fibre from banana trunk,
stems, leaf stalks and peduncle which were disposed as waste earlier. The
machine is designed to take it to the fields and extract the fibre there in
the field it self. It runs with 1 hp motor with normal domestic current.

The cuppy arranged to motor attached to another cuppy attached to

machine rotor rotates on wheel based rotation. Special EN800 bladed are
arranged in the rotor. In the front part of the machine a feeding plate is
arranged containing three steel rollers. The feeding plate moves forward
and backward. Feeding plate can be moved with two knobs. On the other
side of the motor a counter weight wheel is arrange which will make the
bearings will lost longer period so that the mission lasts longer. With the
help of this machine after cutting the leaves, fruits or vegetables it is easy
to extract fibre from disposable waste like stems, leaf stalks and peduncle.
Even ladies can work on this mission without any problem or risk.

In the process of extracting the fibre, the trunk has to be cut in to two
parts i.e. approximately 2and half to 3 feet length pieces. They should be
further cut in to middle to remove the xylem part of the tree. In the same
the manner the outer skin dark yellowish layer also should be removed
because no fibre can be extracted from these outer layers. Remaining light
yellowish trunk should be cut in to pieces to enable them to be inserted in
to the machine. Such arranged pieces should be inserted in to roller and
should be pulled back as shown in the demo. The fibre is extracted
immediately from the pieces inserted and pulled back. The same piece
should be inserted in to the roller and pulled out. Around 200 grams of
fibre can be extracted from each plant. If the cut trunk pieces are fresh it
is easy to extract the fibre, and not only that the fibre extracted from the
fresh trunk pieces will be attractive white in colour and the quantity of
yield will be improved. Irrespective of the type of the banana plant all
type of banana plants are suitable for extracting the fibre. Fresh, strong
and bulky trunk pieces will yield more fibre. As far as possible one week
from the cutting of trunk it is ideal to get maximum yield of fibre. In the
same way from the final cut trunk pieces fibre should be on the same day.
For the quality and quantity of the fibre these two steps are very very
important.

The fibre extracted from the machine should be squeezed and dried to
remove the moisture. During the drying period the fibre should be hit on a
table to remove the pith form the fibre. The fibre such cleaned should be
again cleaned with nylon brushes. The totally dried fibre is bundled in to
5 kg, 10kg and 15 kg bundles and should be taken care not to get exposed
to moisture. The fibre can be preserved for a long period. It costs for each
Kg of fibre around Rs. 20 to Rs. 30.which can be sold at a rate of around
Rs. 50 to 70.

In the same manner fibre can be extracted from leaf stalks. Yellowish
outer skin should be removed and should be cut in to pieces suitable to
insert into machine inserted. In the same way leafed stem also can be
extracted fibre. The extracted fibre from the main trunk carries mole
value.

The waste materiel came out from the machine during the process of fibre
is good organic manure.

The finished fibre extract is used in making many types of decorative

articles.

Please see the remaining ms word documents and power point slides for
the finished products