Traditionally plant residues such as leaves, areca palm sheaths have been used in India forming into different shapes such as plates, cups, saucers, etc. for serving of foods. Normally these are formed by stitching the leaves /sheaths into desired shapes by stapling several leaves together by using split plant stems made as pins. A simple pedal operated leaf cup machine was developed by CFTRI nearly 30 years back and this machine has become very popular
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