Entrepreneur – Bui Khanh Dung and the promise made from banana silk
(DNHN) – As an enterprise with a very young age, established in September 2019, Musa Pacta Company of Mr. Bui Khanh Dung has succeeded in owning a patent for useful solutions for the production of yarns from yarns. banana stem.
“The name Musa Pacta has a special meaning, which is a compound name from Latin. Musa means banana, and Pacta means covenant. It is a covenant to turn banana fibers into useful things together, to get rich together, to develop together, so that the country has one more preeminent product in the world market”, Mr. Bui Khanh Dung – Director Musa Pacta company confided.
“If you just think of the banana stem as being discarded, it’s really a waste. From the trunk of a banana tree, it can bring potential economic value when it is possible to make banana fiber, banana silk, and then create handicraft products, paper, … with higher value. , said boss Musa Pacta.
In addition, banana fiber is not as flammable as other materials. Because banana trees are available with natural antibiotics, they are not moldy or infected, so banana products when imported into other countries do not have to go through complicated phytosanitary procedures like many food products. other objects.
From raw banana fiber products, people can also produce a variety of products such as handicrafts, paper of all kinds such as money printing paper, wrapping paper, to high-class materials used in the automobile and yacht industries. … create a double commercial value.
Only to find out more, he found that the world market for banana fiber has been formed and developed for about 15-20 years. It is a vibrant market, developing continuously with the world’s leading exporters of raw banana fibers such as the Philippines, India, etc., earning billions of dollars each year.
Looking back to Vietnam, he saw banana trees everywhere, and every province had a growing area. The first advantage of banana fiber is the abundant source of raw materials – which is discarded after harvesting the fruit.
“If you want to have 1kg of cotton, jute or hemp, you have to break the land to plant it, you have to take care of it, you have to wait, it takes effort, and it takes effort. As for bananas, it is different, the raw materials are available, so why not learn from your country’s experience to create high-value products from this plant, helping farmers have more jobs. job?” he thought.
The scale of the world banana fiber industry is worth tens of billions of dollars, high-end fashion brands such as Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Zara, Uniqlo, H&M… all have products from banana fiber and banana fiber fabric. The growth rate of the banana silk yarn market in the last 10 years has been between 16 and 30% per year,” he informed.
When I’m rowing the boat, you can either get on it or not, stand on the shore and applaud, but don’t throw stones because there will be a lot of people throwing them for no reason. It’s always like that, as the poet Luu Quang Vu said: “It’s easy to flatter life, it’s easy to curse life. Only building a life is difficult.”
Musa Pacta shapes the ecosystem of banana fibers in Vietnam, consisting of 5 components that are both interwoven, complementary, and mutually supportive, including:
- The system of spinning mills can be developed to villages all over the country so that it is like a common rice milling machine, whoever goes to the fields or in the garden has a few banana stalks after plucking and leaving the fibers there, gradually gathering them. then sell;
- On-site system of workshops and establishments producing handicrafts;
- The Institute for Research on High-Tech Seeds and Digital Transformation will become an incubator, a scientific support and seedling for farmers, especially banana farmers.
- The system of banana ecological conservation zones in which there are more than 60 indigenous banana varieties and more than 200 foreign banana varieties. This is a new product of the tourism industry because it can develop from discovery tourism, conference tourism, experience tourism, educational tourism because there are extremely unique banana varieties such as red bananas and black bananas. , super-dwarf bananas only 80cm can go to the chamber, super-high bananas up to 20m, hundreds of bananas, bananas weighing up to 1.5kg;
- The system of factories producing from cotton fabric, banana fiber to garment, factories processing banana residue as animal feed, growing media or pressing as construction materials.
As the first and only enterprise in Vietnam that produces and trades in fiber products from banana trunks, Mr. Dung said that because he is a new business, he still faces many difficulties because he is a new business.
Tens of billions of dong plus a lot of effort and wisdom has been invested by Mr. Dung and his associates for the tiny banana silk thread. He is also the owner of a patent for a device to process banana stalks into fibers, residues, water or in other words, there is no waste but all become commodities, which are input materials for many people. other fields such as growing media, microbial watering services. They contribute to the organicization of agriculture with a more reasonable price because 1 liter of banana juice can be mixed with 100 liters of water for additional irrigation of medium and microelements with a selling price of only 30,000 VND.
In the near future, when the cotton and yarn factory of Musa Pacta Company is inaugurated, it can be expected that there will be a line of high quality fabric products for consumption and export. A new industry, a new ecosystem based on banana silk fibers will gradually be formed.
This is also a trend of green economic development, sustainable economy, harmless and environmentally friendly.
(Source: https://doanhnghiephoinhap.vn/doanh-nhan-bui-khanh-dung-va-loi-Giao-uoc-tu-nhung-soi-to-chuoi.html)
