In the past, when spathes of areca trees falls, they were used to make fans or baits to light a fire while children used them to play. Yet over the past few years, a young man named Nguyen Van Tuyen ...

Dinner plates and sweet bowls of various sizes are lined up, ready for collection at the entrance of J Santhosh Mary’s home in the village of Valadi, 18 km from Tiruchi. A large number of them will be ...

Many agricultural by-products, such as banana peels, straw, water hyacinth stalks, areca sheaths and bagasse, are valuable and can be reused instead of thrown away. * In rural areas, areca spathe was ...