Nigerian youths can escape the perpetual poverty trap by tapping into the economic diversification of the federal government ...

An innovative local machine that quickly processes sisal fibre is building resilience to drought for farmers in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda KISUMU, Kenya – An entrepreneurial Kenyan engineer has ...

Les prix d'une fibre textile poursuivent leur ascension : ceux du sisal. La fibre dure n'est plus uniquement utilisée dans les cordages. Parmi les fibres textiles, il en est une qui tire son épingle ...

Mr Alex Odundo demonstrates how sisal fibre is processed using one of his home-made machines, called the decorticator. Right: The spooling machine, which is used to twine sisal fibres. The machine ...

Sisal, an exceptionally strong, fibre is suitable for the manufacture of many products, among them being agricultural and parceling twine, ropes, sacks and bags, carpets and mats, pulp for papermaking ...

Sisal is a plant that is commonly grown in Tanzania that produces a stiff fibre typically used to make ropes and mats. However only 2% of the plant is used to make the fibre - the rest is thrown away.

In a few years, Brazil, which is the world’s leader in the biofuels segment, with its production of billions of liters of ethanol and biodiesel from sugar cane, will have another possible option: ...

With the ban on plastic bags, Kenyans should rethink sisal because its farming has a long term advantage. Sisal, whose botanical name is Agave Sisalana, was first introduced to Kenya in 1914 when the ...

Kabati division farmers of Kitui West District are a keen lot. When rains failed three times in a row and food production suffered, they turned to commercial sisal for a new market that is developing ...

Sisal is a plant that is commonly grown in Tanzania that produces a stiff fibre typically used to make ropes and mats. However only 2% of the plant is used to make the fibre - the rest is thrown away.