It is made of coconut palms, jackfruit leaves, arecanut fronds and hyacinth pulp
Every year lakhs of saplings are being planted across Kerala, but it also often generates a huge volume of plastic waste.
EichhoTech, a student startup based in SD College, Alappuzha has come up with a novel range of eco-friendly products made of locally available resources as a replacement for harmful plastic and PVC based nursery trays and pots.
A team of researchers and students led by G. Nagendra Prabhu, Associate Professor and Principal Investigator of the Centre for Research on Aquatic Resources at SD College launched eco-friendly nursery/seed germination pots using leaves such as coconut palm leaf, leaf of jackfruit, wild jack, arecanut palm fronds as well as pulp from the harmful aquatic weed water hyacinth.