A farmer cuts down a banana plant, at her farm, in Kiwenda village, Busukuma, Wakiso District, Uganda, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. The decapitated banana plant is almost useless, an inconvenience ...

A farmer cuts down a banana plant, at her farm, in Kiwenda village, Busukuma, Wakiso District, Uganda, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. The decapitated banana plant is almost useless, an inconvenience ...

MUKONO, Uganda (AP) — A decapitated banana plant is almost useless, ... A Ugandan company is buying banana stems in a business that turns fiber into attractive handicrafts.

MUKONO, Uganda (AP) — A decapitated banana plant is almost useless, an inconvenience to the farmer who must then uproot it and lay its dismembered parts as mulch. But can such stems somehow be ...