Alicia is a writer, photographer, and social entrepreneur specializing in sustainable travel, wildlife and nature conservation, and environmentally friendly agriculture and eating. She holds an M.S.

Typically associated with the crude ‘gunny bag’ used in the bazaars of the Indian sub-continent, jute is now very much up-market with an amazing variety of fashionable products being turned out from ...

The government purchases jute sacking bags worth approximately ₹9,000 crore every year for packaging of foodgrains. This ensures guaranteed market for the produce of jute farmers and workers The jute ...

In the dim light of a century-old mill, dozens of men work in silence, their sweat-darkened undershirts clinging to taut, weary backs. Hulking metal machinery clatters and thrums, coughing up fibrous ...

Work abstention by the loom workers at Jem Jute Mills Limited at Muslimbagh in Boda upazila of Panchagarh continued for the fourth day yesterday. The workers have been agitating in front of the ...

India has launched a mid-term review of the anti-dumping duties it had imposed on jute products imported from Bangladesh and Nepal, the Commerce Ministry’s investigation arm said in a notification ...

India has started a mid-term review of the existing anti-dumping duty imposed on Jute products imported from Bangladesh and Nepal, according to a notification. The review was started by the commerce ...

But subdued export demand will weigh on sales of specialised jute products such as hessian, gift articles and decorative fabrics, which offer better margins. The upshot of all this is that operating ...