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

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.

The initiative for modernisation and rehabilitation of 28 state-owned jute mills is in the offing to create employment opportunities and bring more foreign exchange. The Chinese state-owned textile ...

Bangladesh's jute industry is losing global competitiveness as outdated machinery, low productivity and high energy costs ...

Small jute mills of Rangpur division in the country's northwest have resumed production after remaining shut for several months as raw jute prices soared after last year's harvests and for the ...

Workers retrenched from state-run jute mills in Bangladesh held a protest demonstration on October 19 demanding the reopening of the factories closed by the government. This was the latest in a series ...

The government estimate that jute bags of 46 lakh bales would be required to pack foodgrains in the next crop season of 2022-23 but the jute industry will fall short in meeting the demand due to ...

As many as 12 out of 26 state-run jute mills that have been closed are set to reopen soon under the management of local and international private companies. Officials of the Bangladesh Jute Mills ...

On July 7, Bangladeshi courts jailed two jute mill union activists—Waliar Rahman, 44, and Nur Islam, 48—after plain clothes police raided their homes between 2.30 and 3.30 a.m. the previous day. The ...

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 ...