The jute industry went through another year of crisis with a sharp raw material shortage, record-high prices and a growing ...

The jute industry is undergoing a severe crisis due to raw material shortages, high jute prices, and increased reliance on plastic packaging. Farmers are shifting to maize cultivation due to more ...

Jute acreage is increasing in the district every year as growers, inspired by higher prices, are bringing more lands under cultivation of the cash crop. However, jute production decreased a bit at the ...

Jute mills in West Bengal have slashed production after raw jute prices crossed ₹1.10 lakh per tonne amid shortages and ...

Jute plants on vast tracts of land are drying up in Gopalganj due to unceasing drought that has been prevailing across the country during the ongoing dry spell. Even though farmers are irrigating ...

Although the present government is committed to bringing back the glory of jute, once called the ‘Golden Fibre of Bangladesh’, the pledge has not turned into a reality as jute cultivation is declining ...

JAGATSINGHPUR: Jute cultivation has dropped by 80 per cent in the district over the last seven years, thanks to distress sale, loss coupled with lack of marketing linkages which have sent farmers away ...

Farmers in the Tarai-Madhes region are gradually losing interest in cultivation of jute, which was once the major cash crop of the region. Especially, jute cultivation was widely done in Sunsari, ...

The Khulna district, once renowned for its thriving jute cultivation, was home to government-owned jute mills that formed the backbone of its economy. Over the decades, however, these state-run mills ...

THIS is with reference to the news by your staff reporter for the saving of $100 million spent on importing jute fibre. I had pointed out this fact in my letter on jute cultivation in these columns on ...