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

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 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 ...

Bangladesh’s jute industry is losing global competitiveness as outdated machinery, low productivity and high energy costs keep production expensive, while rival countries have modernised and achieved ...

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

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, ...

For 2012-13 crop year, the National Jute Board has voiced its concern that production of jute in the country is expected to decline by 12% to 90 lakh bales. This decline in production can be ...

The cultivation of jute in the district has been revived after a gap of several years, which was once a lucrative cash crop for farmers. Incidentally, over a period of time, banana farming had turned ...