Poor rainfall this monsoon has prompted the state government to issue an advisory to jute farmers to dig up small ponds on their land and arrange water for retting jute. Retting of jute is a kind of ...

Jute farmers of several northern districts are facing problem to rot and process the natural fibre as water bodies have dried up due to scanty rainfall during the last one month. Jute farmers in ...

Growers are facing trouble in retting raw jute as a lack of rainfall has reduced the availability of natural waterbodies, affecting the quality of the eco-friendly fibre being produced, according to ...

Bacteria capable of retting jute are present in pond water, in the soil of jute fields, and on the surface of jute plants. They probably enter stems over the whole surface through stomata, as well as ...

Guwahati Biotech Park CEO Vinod Seshan and Next2Nature CEO Nishant Saraogi at the launch of Crijaf Sona in Guwahati on Monday. Picture by UB Photos Guwahati, June 12: Crijaf Sona, a microbial ...

With the intervention of IJIRA's 'Subhra', a biochemical formulation, the industry has seen the faster jute retting process and the labour intensity for retting has come down to 7-10 days, Irani said.

Visakhapatnam:Visakhapatnam: From cultivation of jute to the process of retting, farmers are subjected to the vagaries of nature. This results in the harvest of the ‘Golden fibre of India’ being ...

Dhaka, July 1 (bdnews24.com) – Agriculture minister Matia Chowdhury revealed on Thursday that 15 lakh farmers of 28 districts will receive Tk 300 million in special farm incentive to switch to the ...

Kolkata, Jul 10 (PTI) The scarcity of rain in the jute-producing districts in the southern part of West Bengal has slowed down the supply of golden fibre to mills amid bumper crop estimates, an ...

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 ...