By Md Jahidul Islam Bangladesh is the world’s second-largest producer and the top exporter of jute. The “golden fiber” is so ...

The news item entitled “Last 2 years' losses still haunt jute growers,” published in this daily recently, raised concern over the future of jute cultivation. The report says that jute growers are ...

Even as raw jute production is estimated to be up by nearly 55 per cent rise this year, jute mills are curtailing production because of the mismatch between the market prices of raw jute and the price ...

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, ...

Prices of raw jute, once dubbed the "golden fibre" of Bangladesh, have increased by nearly 19 percent year-on-year as demand has outpaced supply following the government's ban on polythene bags.

Soon after assuming charge as minister for public health engineering and labour, Serampore MLA Bhaskar Bhattacharya outlined ...

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 ...

Reports from east Nepal, the main jute-growing belt in the country, say that the area under cultivation has been shrinking every year, despite a growing market for the finished product both in the ...

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 ...