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Student’s cheap box that rippens banana in just three days

PHOTO: STANDARD

Bananas are harvested green and begin to ripen as soon as the stem is cut from the plant. Normally, farmers use all manner of methods to hasten the ripening.

The disadvantage of these traditional methods is that the process takes too long.

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