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After felling a mature banana tree to access the edible fruit, many farmers in Kirinyaga County usually feed the stem to their cattle or discard it to decay in the farm.
Unknown to them, they have been losing out on earning some good money from the stem, which animal nutrition experts say has little nutritional benefits to the animals. This is, however, set to change after an organisation introduced a technology to extract fibre from banana stems and weave bags, mats, wall hangings and sanitary towels, among others items.
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