Jute mills

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Avisek Dutta
  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…
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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…
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Biswajit Mukherjee
History The Mughal chronicle Ain-i-Akbari (1590) mentions that people of rural India wore clothes made from white jute threads. Clothes used to be made from hand-spun fabric woven of such threads. Indians, especially Bengalis, have been using jute threads and other light-spun fabric thread in their…
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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.…
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Avisek Dutta
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…
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Avisek Dutta
  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…
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