In 2010, the government had passed the Jute Packaging Act, making use of jute mandatory in packaging of a number of food items, including paddy, rice, wheat, corn, sugar, chilli, turmeric, ginger, ...

Farmers and traders will soon have to pack chilli, turmeric, onion, ginger, garlic, pulse, coriander, potato and rice bran in jute sacks. At present, the use of jute sacks for packaging some of ...

The use of jute for food packaging has raised health concerns due to the presence of Jute Batching Oil (JBO), a carcinogenic substance. Recent studies, including one from the Indian Institute of ...

Four years down the line in 2017, the rules were amended to add another 11 commodities – chilli, coriander, onion, ginger, garlic, pulses, turmeric, potatoes, flour, and rice bran. In 2018, poultry ...

"Over the years, there has been several dilutions in the jute packaging materials act. Besides foodgrain and sugar, cement and fertilisers used to be covered under the act. However, they were ...

Farmers grew jute on 7.38 lakh hectares and harvested 82.47 lakh bales of jute in fiscal 2016-17, up 9 percent year-on-year, according to provisional data from Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.

The food ministry has written to all the sugar mills to the Rules under the Jute Packaging Material (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act, 1987 as notified by the Textile Ministry after it ...

Despite the industry's preparedness to fulfil the packaging requirements during the kharif and rabi crop procurement seasons, the demand for jute bags has plummeted from an estimated 38-39 lakh ...

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved reservation norms for mandatory use of jute in packaging of rice, wheat and sugar for 2022-23. “The mandatory norms provide for full ...

The quantity of raw jute available during 2017-18 and projection for 2018-19, as per assessment of the Jute Advisory Board, is 101.40 lakh bales (18.25 lakh tonnes) and 98.40 lakh bales (17.71 lakh ...