Banana Leaves Usage As An Alternative To Polythene Lunch Sheets

”Sri Lanka Next” exhibition was staged during 16th-17th October at the BMICH by the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment under the aegis of President Maithripala Sirisena. At this exhibition Army personnel in the Directorate of Agriculture displayed, how banana leaves could be repeatedly used and preserved for more than three months unaffected when it is dipped in hot water and boiled for some time.

To start with, Army personnel would expand cultivation of banana trees inside all barren Army lands across the country within a few days.

Army personnel in the Directorate of Agriculture expects to launch a program at different locations to give away those boiled banana leaves for use to the public, instead of polythene lunch sheets, Army media stated.