Dreams in jute

Jute fibre is making a comeback in new and innovative ways

Just jute

Jute is a true-blue environmentally-benign product

Matrix reloaded

Adding jute fiber to cement mix can make buildings stronger

JUTE PREVAILS

NEW JUTE VARIETY

Brighter days ahead

Greening the fibre

BANGLADESH, JUTE

Workers offer wages

Uses of jute

Green wheels

Jute claims

Delicacies from its leaves relieve arsenic poisoning  

PESTERING ISSUE

In South Asia

Profitable in every way

Scientists develop method to use jute for making paper pulp

POLYTHENE BANNED

Green shopping

Leaves of memory

A reprieve for the paper industry

Jute fibre, which could provide a solution to the increasing crisis in procuring wood pulp, could be science's gift to the paper industry.

Focus shifts to man-made fibre

Farmers sidelined in draft national fibre policy

Fall of golden fibre

An inefficient industry is marring prospects of jute, paving way for plastics

Crows drop dead eating insects killed by pesticides in Bihar's Purnea

The birds being scavengers, are an important part of the area's ecology, they say

The road ahead

Jute, coir and waste material are set to make rural roads economic and eco-friendly