Department of Banana Derivatives & Value-Added Products
Transform Waste into Wealth: Gain Practical Skills in Just Weeks!
BANISTECH’s Short Course Department offers intensive, hands-on training for entrepreneurs, artisans, and innovators seeking to master specific skills in the lucrative banana and plantain value chain. Open to everyone—no formal educational background is required. Choose exactly what you want to learn and pay for only that knowledge. Each module awards a Professional Certificate and runs between 2 to 8 weeks (duration specified per course).
Track A: Food & Beverages
- Module Name:. Fruit & Vegetable Processing
Investment : ₦650,000
Description : Learn the safe and efficient transformation of banana and plantain fruits and stems into consumer-ready food products like chips, fries, purees, and ready-to-eat meals. Master preservation techniques, quality control, and packaging standards for commercial sales.
2. Module Name:Banana/Plantain Juice & Beverage Production
Investment ₦550,000
Description : Gain hands-on expertise in extracting, treating, and bottling high-quality, shelf-stable juices, wines, and health beverages from various parts of the plant. Covers sterilization, flavour profiling, and essential food safety regulations.
3. Module Name: Banana/Plantain Flour & Baking Products
Investment : ₦750,000
Description : An intensive course on milling and processing fruits, peels, and pseudo-stems into versatile flours. Learn the drying, grinding, and blending techniques required, alongside practical application in baking healthy, gluten-free, and commercially viable food products.
Track B: Fibre, Paper & Crafts
- Module Name: Fibre Extraction
Investment: ₦500,000
Description : Essential training in the fundamentals of extracting, washing, and preparing usable fibre from banana pseudo-stems. Ideal for beginners, this module covers small-scale mechanical and manual methods needed to create basic raw material for subsequent craft production.
2. Module Name: Handmade Paper & Cardboard Production
Investment: ₦650,000
Description : Learn the eco-friendly process of converting banana fibre pulp into high-end handmade paper, specialty cardstock, and durable cardboard. This course covers beating, sheet formation, pressing, drying, and customization techniques for artistic and packaging applications.
3. Module Name:Craft Production (Mats, Shoes, Handbags, etc.)
Investment (₦) 400,000
Description: A practical, skill-building module focused on weaving, plaiting, and assembling dried banana fibre material into functional and marketable artisanal products like floor mats, footwear, bags, and decorative items. Ideal for immediate income generation.
Track C: Agricultural Inputs & Bioproducts
- Module Name: Suckers Production Plant Propagation
Investment (₦) 800,000
Description Specialized training in advanced plant propagation techniques. Learn how to select, treat, and multiply high-quality, disease-free suckers using methods like macro-propagation for large-scale farm establishment or commercial nursery operations.
2. Module Name: Plant Nutrient (Organic Compost & Extracts)
Investment (₦) 500,000
Description: Master the transformation of banana/plantain waste biomass into high-grade organic compost, and nutrient-rich liquid extracts. Learn formulation, batch processing, and packaging for small-to-medium commercial sale.
3. Module Name: Vermicompost Production
Investment (₦) 450,000
Description: A focused course on the science and practice of using earthworms to rapidly convert banana/plantain residues into premium, highly valuable vermicompost and vermitea, providing excellent soil fertility solutions.
4. Module Name: Biogas Production
Investment : ₦1, ,000,000
Description : Learn to design, construct, and manage a functional anaerobic digester system to convert agricultural waste into renewable cooking gas (Biogas) and nutrient-rich bio-slurry. Covers safety protocols, system maintenance, and yield optimization.