Poor rainfall this monsoon has prompted the state government to issue an advisory to jute farmers to dig up small ponds on their land and arrange water for retting jute. Retting of jute is a kind of ...

Growers are facing trouble in retting raw jute as a lack of rainfall has reduced the availability of natural waterbodies, affecting the quality of the eco-friendly fibre being produced, according to ...

Dhaka, June 23 (bdnews24.com) – Following their success in genome sequencing of jute, the Bangladesh Jute Research Institute is now trying to invent a technology that will allow jute retting with less ...

Production has slowed at small jute mills in northern regions of Bangladesh due to low quality of raw jute resulting from problems in retting during harvest, according to market players. The quality ...

Experts at a day-long training workshop on ‘Production of high yielding local variety Jute, jute seeds and improved retting technology’ project arranged yesterday at Badarganj upazila parishad ...

Table 1 Assembly and annotation features of the C. olitorius and C. capsularis genomes. RNA-seq results for fibre biogenesis pathway genes were validated with quantitative polymerase chain reaction ...

Kolkata, Jul 10 (PTI) The scarcity of rain in the jute-producing districts in the southern part of West Bengal has slowed down the supply of golden fibre to mills amid bumper crop estimates, an ...

I was pleased to see a discussion of green clothing (13 March, p 37). Is it time to revisit fibres such as sisal and jute? The jute plant grows remarkably well on marginal land. But traditional ...

Although local markets in Faridpur, better known as the hub of jute production, have been buzzing with the presence of buyers and sellers, the smile on the faces of jute growers is fading due to low ...