JUTE

Jute is the Maine cash crop of the Bangladesh. It is essential for all the countries of the world. Eighty percent of the total jute production in the world comes from Bangladesh. So Bangladesh enjoys monopoly in jute.

It is a kind of fiber. It is obtained from a kind of annual plant. The jute plat grows from five to seven feet high. It has no branches. Their leaf grows on its stem. The stem is covered with thick, furious bark.

 Jute grows well in moist climate and in low, wet soil. So it grows in plenty in Bangladesh. Eighty ninety percent of jute is exported to the world market from our country.

The growth of jute requires much lab-our and care. To make the soil loose and label it should be harrowed again and again. Then the seeds are sown very carefully. The cultivators usually sow seeds in the month of flagon and chaitra, after a heavy shower of rain. Little plants come out in a few days. Grass, weeds, weak plants are carefully pulled out at times.

The jute plants grow up in two or three months and the bards get hard. The plants are then cut down. The stalks are bound into bundles and kept under water for some days. When the bark is rotten, it is then taken off the stalks. It is the washed will, dried in the sun made into bales and sold in the market.

Considering its usefulness government has set up a ministry for jute in Bangladesh so that the cultivators can get the justified price. Our scientists are working day night to find out improved method of cultivation.

Jute comes to our use into many ways. It is turned into gunny and then to bags in jute mills. It is also used in making paper, cloths, ropes, mats, brushes and many other useful things. The stalks are used as fuel and fencing. The leaves are taken as vegetables.

Jute is an asset to the county and a hope to the growers. During rainy season the villager’s do not have any harvest and it is the only crop necessaries.

The prosperity of the country depends in the successful production and marketing of jute goods in the international market.  The prosperity of the country depends in the golden fiber of jute.

Jute is golden in color. It is also sent to the world market to earn gold from other countries. So it is called the golden fibber of Bangladesh.

Nowadays growers lack interest in growing jute for its low price. They cannot even the cost of production by selling jute. Sometimes the farmers the burs jute when they fail to sell jute at a reasonable proce.