A Japanese company is setting up a banana paper project in Eastern Province that will be producing high-grade paper from banana stems.
According to a post in The Zambia Daily Mail, One Planet CafΓ©, which has its headquarters in Japan, is implementing the banana paper project in Mfuwe and expanding to Nyimba.
Under the project, the company will buy banana stems from small-scale farmers and produce pulp, which will be exported to Japan and Europe to make the finished product.