{"id":39196,"date":"2018-12-20T17:08:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T11:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=39196"},"modified":"2018-12-20T17:08:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T11:38:03","slug":"packaging-of-foodgrain-in-jute-bags-made-mandatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/packaging-of-foodgrain-in-jute-bags-made-mandatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Packaging of foodgrain in jute bags made mandatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/packaging-of-foodgrain-in-jute-bags-made-mandatory\/article25783889.ece\">Packaging of foodgrain in jute bags made mandatory<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>The Centre has mandated the packaging of 100% of food grain and 20% of sugar in jute bags for 2018-19.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The order follows the Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act (JPM), which was enacted in 1987 to protect the jute sector from the plastic packaging segment.<\/li>\n<li>This is the first time since 2012-13 that 100% reservation had been announced for foodgrain. It was 90% last year.<\/li>\n<li>In case of sugar, the government has stipulated that diversified jute bags be used as traditional bags are not being preferred by the user-sector due to contaminants like jute fibre, batching oil moisture pick-up and sugar spillage.<\/li>\n<li>West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh are the two largest jute goods producers, Punjab is the largest procuring State.<\/li>\n<li>Gunny bags now account for about 63% of raw jute consumption.<\/li>\n<li>Initially there was reservation for sugar, cement, fertiliser and food grain packaging over time but certain sectors have been taken out of the ambit due seepage issue through materials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packaging of foodgrain in jute bags made mandatory News: The Centre has mandated the packaging of 100% of food grain and 20% of sugar in jute bags for 2018-19. Important Facts: The order follows the Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act (JPM), which was enacted in 1987 to protect the jute sector&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/packaging-of-foodgrain-in-jute-bags-made-mandatory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Packaging of foodgrain in jute bags made mandatory<\/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-39196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704770769},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39196","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=39196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}