J AGATSINGHPUR: 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 ...
Raw jute production in Bangladesh has declined by nearly 10 percent year-on-year, mainly due to punishing heat during the planting period in March and April. Heatwaves were recorded on at least 23 ...
However, many farmers in this region have recently shifted away from traditional jute cultivation to adopting maize as their preference and have shared the reason behind it. According to reports ...
In its notification, the Ministry of Textiles mandated 100 per cent jute packagiong for foodgrains and 20 per cent of the total sugar production. The South Indian Sugar Mills Association ...