• Mrs. Archana Prasad

Banana is one of the rhizomatous plants and currently grown in 129 countries around the world. It is the fourth most important global food crop. Different parts of banana trees serve different needs, including fruits as food sources, leaves as food wrapping, and stems for fiber and paper pulp. Historically, banana stems had been used as a source of fiber with the earliest evidence around the 13th century. But its popularity was faded after other convenient fibers such as cotton and silk were made available. As fiber industry has been developing to increase production efficiency, new fibers were then developed to effectively respond the consumers’ need, including the production of man-made fibers using petroleum to optimize the fiber properties. The chemical use inevitably causes contamination in every environmental medias - water, soil and air, which directly affects human wellbeing and environment. This research is to develop banana fiber from the plant that is available locally throughout the country of Thailand but rarely used as fiber source in textile industry. The focus of the study is to optimize the fiber producing processes of in an environmental friendly manner and decrease chemicals and toxic agents incurred. The findings were 25-30% yield for fiber collection and the mechanical process (fresh method) is an appropriate method of fiber extraction. The yarn spinning and knitting were experimented but the results have not been satisfied, yet. Further study should be developed. As banana fiber can provide a wide variety of uses in textile and paper industry, the study the application of this locally and widely grown plant species for the sustainable development would be beneficial.

Banana, Fiber, textiles etc

"Banana Plant Waste as Raw Material Using in Textiles", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.619-626, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812389.pdf

"Banana Plant Waste as Raw Material Using in Textiles", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp619-626, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812389.pdf