Badin: ‘Eco-friendly’ machines installed to make fiber from banana stem

Sindh District of give In the small village of Tehsil Tando Ghulam Ali, ‘for the first time’ a local landowner has set up a factory on his land and installed machinery to make fiber from banana stems. Not only this move Environmental friendly It is also a source of employment for the local people.

Banana stalks were previously burnt, which is very harmful to the environment, but local landowner Agha Sami Durrani, keeping in mind the environmental pollution, instead of burning banana stalks on his nearly 600 acres of land, made fiber from it. A factory has been set up for this, from which several mana of fiber is produced daily, which is supplied to various factories in Pakistan including Karachi and Hyderabad.

For this, workers separate the bananas from the banana plantations and transport the stems to the factory, where the stems are split into two parts and the strips are fed into machines, after which they are made into fiber. comes out, which after about 24 hours of teaching is sent to different regions. Pads, tissue paper, plastic glasses, cloth and other products are made from this fiber.

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Agha Samiullah Durrani, the owner of the factory, said that he has his own banana plantations, from which he has set up this factory to make fiber.

According to Samiullah Durrani: ‘I have taken fiber so far that I have been approached by textile mills and big companies, they first took samples and then they discussed with me that they were interested in buying the yarn. are.’

He further said that there are some people in Sindh who are working like me. Some have one machine and some have two machines. They are working on a diesel engine and they have had a lot of difficulties.’

According to Agha Sami: ‘I prefer the environment. By setting up a plant here, the people here have got employment. They are very happy, I pay them on time.’

Imran Ali, who works in the factory of Agha Sami Durrani, said that there are seven machines in the factory and one worker extracts about 120 kg of fiber.

He said that ‘Earlier banana stalks were burnt, which damaged the environment, but now the environment is better and fiber is also being produced.’