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India's Jute Sector
Jute, the coarse golden fibre spun into sacking and increasingly into geotextiles and clothing, is one of the few crops where India leads the world outright. The country grows more raw jute than anyone else and makes roughly three-quarters of the world's jute goods, on a base of about 40 lakh farm families and 3.70 lakh mill workers. A government explainer of 8 September 2026 sets out where the crop is grown, what props up the farmer's price, and how the industry is being pushed beyond the sack.
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Filled the card out from the Agriculture Ministry's own account of the sector. Jute packaging is a legal reservation - 100 percent of food grains and 20 percent of sugar must go into jute bags - and MSP paid to jute farmers has risen from Rs 441 crore over FY2004-05 to FY2013-14 to Rs 1,342 crore over FY2014-15 to FY2025-26, disbursed through about 110 purchase centres in six states. Also added: jute and mesta output of 94.03 lakh bales on the Third Advance Estimate, the JUTE-SMART portal's 303 lakh bales of sacking bags bought since 2016, and the National Jute Board's statutory welfare role.
- jute
- golden fibre
- Jute Corporation of India
- National Jute Board
- JUTE-ICARE
- jute geotextiles
- minimum support price
- West Bengal
- mesta
- Jute Packaging Materials Act
- JUTE-SMART
- CRIJAF
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