Second Chance: Jute’s Present Crisis and Future Promise in Bangladesh
For most of the twentieth century, jute was Bangladesh’s identity crop. The golden fibre built the foreign exchange reserves of undivided Bengal, financed the Pakistani state’s infrastructure ambitions, and gave the new nation of Bangladesh whatever economic foundation it inherited in 1971. That era of dominance is long past. Synthetic substitutes, changing global packaging markets,…
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