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Hard Work And Innovative Ideas Brings Success In Business

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Hard work and innovative ideas of school drop out gave him business success, earning crores.

PM Murugesan Turned banana waste into ropes and usable artifacts.

Turned banana waste into ropes and usable artifacts.

PM Murugesan, a resident of Melakkal village in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India almost two decades ago, started with an idea to use the residual banana fiber to weave them into ropes. These could then be used to make various products like mats, bags, etc.  In this journey, he innovated a machine for making rope from banana waste and get it patented. Now he is having his company, giving employment to 350 plus people's mainly women, and earning in crores

PM  Murugesan 7th pass out had to leave his education in between to accompany his father in family-driven agricultural work. Though he left school his thought was innovative in nature, which tempted him to keep trying innovative ideas in his agriculture works, in order to get better yield, though failed many times.

In India banana is very native to peoples. A banana plant is known for its versatility, that every part of it is useful. From using the leaves as serving plates to the stem, flower, and fruit, all are edible. The only waste generated from a banana farm is the two outermost layers: the sheaths of the banana stem. Typically, these are either burnt or dumped as garbage. People were using this waste just for threading flowers to the garland which too was as low volume.

PM Murugesan-Found treasure in the trash

Finding treasure in the trash

Here his innovative mind started to work again. There was a lot of waste generated from banana farms around him, which he thought to find ways to use in a commercial way.

 The idea struck him when he saw the banana thread being used to thread flowers for garlands. But it was difficult in the beginning as the rope would not stay connected, and kept splitting, 

Early on, no machine could be used for the banana fiber, and Murugesan tried most of the work manually or on makeshift machines. Murugesan further tried his hand processing the banana fiber into the rope on pre-existing machines nearby, which were used to process coconut husk into ropes, Unfortunately, that did not work. But he didn't give up. He used this machine as the base and modified it to work well for processing banana fiber. Here he got little success and further added a motor to it to ensure that the production could be faster.

After a series of trial-and-error, he developed a spinning machine using bicycle wheel rims and pulleys. This was a frugal innovation at its best. He braids the strands together to achieve a good tensile strength. He focused his effort to produce products that worth the money. In the desire to further better this process, Murugesan invested close to Rs 1.5 lakhs and built a spinning machine especially for making usable rope from the banana sheath and patented it. Then,  he approached the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) and briefed them about the machines, and asked for help. The institute was amazed to see his work. They not only praised him for his machine but also recommended this machine to be used by other farmers in the area as well.

Automatic  Banana sheath rope making machine

In 2008 he was just a typical Poor Indian farmer, suffering financial crunch, now he is having his own Company providing consistent employment to more than 350 village women at the same time doing crores of turover in business producing use full natural artifacts.

 

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    K K Ravindranath, 16th December, 2022 .

    I like this one Please informs address of mr Murukesan use hi CT

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