In 2000s, Eco Green Unit a paper manufacturing firm attached to the Agri Business Directorate of the Tamilnadu Agricultural University, and Chaitanya Mandal a Pune-based NGO innovated a new process to extract fiber from banana stems. They created a simple mechanical process where a machine can extract fiber in an efficient manner. This banana fiber extracting machine can be easily operated by an unskilled workers and gives maximum output of fibers. These eco-friendly fibers have suitable properties like low density, appropriate stiffness, high disposability and renewability.