Jute industry

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  Interviewer: There are three aspects of jute industry: jute cultivation, jute industry and the environmental benefits of jute. If all three aspects are taken then jute industry cannot be a sunset industry, in today’s world. So what is the reason or the force that claims jute industry as a sunset…
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Geo-textiles are fabrics which allows liquids or gases to pass through it. Geo-textitle are used to separate, filter, reinforce, protect, or drain when used in soil. This article Suitability of Natural Fibres in Geotextile Applications by jute scientist P.K.Choudhury, Dr Mahuya Ghosh and Tapobrata…
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Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay is a professor at the Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. This article 'Choot-Paat Bettantyo' , a reflection on the current situation of jute industry in Bengal and in India, was first published in the magazine BaroMash, Durgapuja Edition, on…
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Choudhury P.K., P.K. Chatterjee and U. Datta. 1998. ‘Jute Geotextiles in Forestry’. National Seminar on JGT & JRC. Shillong. ———  and K. Jayachandran. 2002. ‘Jute as Geotextiles’. All India Seminar on Application of Jute Textile in Civil Engineering IEI. Kolkata.   De Haan, Arjan. 1997. ‘…
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Jute is a natural fibre produced from plants, also called as the ‘golden fibre’ due to its shiny golden colour. It is commonly referred to as Pat (Tossa pat, Sadha pat) in Bengali and Hindi, Mar pat in Assamese, Jhota in Oriya, Chanapai in Tamil, Janumu in Telegu, Chanambu in Malayalam, Joot in…
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Pradip Kumar Choudhury, Arindam Das and Tapobrata Sanyal
Jute Geotextile (JGT) and agrotextile (JAT) made from fibres of jute plant have proved effective in addressing soil-related problems in civil engineering and agriculture.  Years of research coupled with concurrent field applications have made it possible to develop appropriate fabrics for JGT and…
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  Translated and edited transcript   Question: Prafulla Chakraborty was directly involved with the Kanoria jute mill movement. Would you kindly tell us more about the Kanoria jute mill movement? When it started? Why it started?   Prafulla Chakraborty: In 1992 the momentum for the Kanoria jute mill…
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