{"id":28370,"date":"2018-10-24T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28370"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:32:37","slug":"in-knotty-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-knotty-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"In knotty problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/Industry\/in-knotty-problems\/article24427421.ece\">In knotty problems<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The jute industry faces a number of issues which hinder it from reaping benefit from plastic bans across different states in India<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><u>Major issues with jute cultivation and jute industry:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Decrease in quality of raw jute<\/li>\n<li>Continuous decrease in land under jute cultivation- according to Union Textile Ministry, there has been a 9.5% drop in area under jute cultivation<\/li>\n<li>Further, since raw jute prices is below support price in 2017-18, it is estimated that area under cultivation may further decrease or stagnate in 2018-19<\/li>\n<li>Primitive labour intensive cultivation methods, retting (drenching raw jute in water to extract fibre) create problems<\/li>\n<li>Jute industries have not upgraded their technology and are dependent on government support like packaging reservations. Only limited number of industries has diversified into non-packaging sector<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><u>Initiatives taken:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><u>The Jute Foundation\u201d (TJF)<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They have been trying to engage all stakeholders (farmers, mill workers, research organizations and consumers) for revival of jute industry and promote use of jute.<\/li>\n<li>They have been working with Indian Jute Research Association to introduce thin and slim jute bags so as to compete with the plastic bags<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>I-CARE<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a programme launched by National Jute Board and Jute Corporation of India<\/li>\n<li>It has launched a pilot project on retting technology which aims a increasing farmer\u2019s returns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In knotty problems News: The jute industry faces a number of issues which hinder it from reaping benefit from plastic bans across different states in India Important facts: Major issues with jute cultivation and jute industry: Decrease in quality of raw jute Continuous decrease in land under jute cultivation- according to Union Textile Ministry, there&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-knotty-problems\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In knotty problems<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704671379},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}