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 ...

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

Jute industry faces crisis in 2025 due to raw material shortage, high prices, and shift to plastic packaging. Learn more ...

Once hailed as the golden fiber and the backbone of Bangladesh's post-independence economy, jute now contributes less than 2% to the country's total export earnings, a sharp fall from nearly 90% in ...

Jute mills have raised concerns over the possibility of further dilution of statutory packaging demand after indications from ...

In a surprising twist, the Palamu police have detained Jairam Oraon, a 35-year-old farmer, discovering a staggering 43.5 kg of raw marijuana during a ...

Government of India is encouraging diversified production of commercial crops such as cotton, jute, sugarcane under National Food Security Mission (NFSNM-Commercial crops) and profitable horticultural ...

Pakistan’s entire economy is tightly interwoven with jute, which is second only to cotton as the world’s most widely used natural plant fiber. Last week Pakistan’s vital jute industry was snarled in a ...

Under FASAL programme, the Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC) generates satellite-based pre-harvest crop production estimates for 11 major crops of the country (Paddy, Wheat, Jute, ...

The Tamil Nadu Rice Research Institute, Aduthurai, conducted a training programme “Value addition in mesta”, a commercial crop, for the benefit of delta farmers. According to a TRRI release, the ...

KATHMANDU – Jute was once the dominant cash crop of eastern Tarai. Fields of tall, golden stalks once stretched across Morang, Sunsari, and Jhapa, feeding dozens of factories and powering the region’s ...