New Delhi: In 2004, a group of street children and ragpickers got together to make bags from scrap cloth and jute. Now, following a ban on plastic bags, the jute bags made by their organisation Lakhshya Badhte Kadam might just have hit the bull
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Thursday launched the International Year of Natural Fibres (IYNF) 2009 in a bid to emphasise the value of fibres while helping to sustain the incomes of farmers.
Rise and fall of common jute Jute leaves dwell in memory. Jute was what people lived off, it was what they ate, in a land where there were many rivers and canals, in places with different names
Saag Ingredients: 250 gms jute leaves Three red chillies Half teaspoon mustard seeds, Pinch of turmeric powder Salt to taste Method: Wash the leaves and chop them fine. Heat half a spoon of mustard oil in an iron wok or frying pan. Add mustard seeds, wait till they begin to crackle, then add the red chillies, turmeric powder and salt. Put in the leaves, stir and cover the
A combination of high tax structure, debatable import duty policies, age-old legislations, lack of duty protection coupled with the overall economic slow down, presents a grim outlook for the plastics industry
Supermarkets in Sri Lanka pitch in to eradicate plastic menace supermarkets in Sri Lanka have come together to discourage the use of plastic shopping bags. As part of a three-phase environmental campaign, they have joined hands with the Central Environmental Authority (cea) and introduced eco-friendly shopping bags, mostly made of jute, at a nominal rate. The bags are being made available
JAMMU, July 23: An awareness programme cum workshop was organized by J&K Khadi and Village Industries Board at Kanipora, Kulgam to create awareness amongst the rural entrepreneurs about different schemes being implemented by the board.
The jute industry has requested the Jute Commissioner's Office (JCO) to initiate stringent action against the West Bengal rice millers for packing non-levy rice in high-density polyethylene (HDPE) bags instead of the mandatory jute bags. Rice mills in the districts of Bankura and Burdwan in West Bengal have been accused of blatantly violating Section 5 of the Jute Packaging Materials Act (JPMA) of 1987 and have been using 50 kg polypropylene sacks for brands such as Double Rose, Mayur and Butterfly.
Jute bags to keep plastic at bay, help Bengal poor Green Shopper Movement Blow To Greedy Middlemen They call it a poor-topoor collaboration. Self Help Groups (SHGs) in West Bengal have joined hands with Chetanalaya, the social service arm of the Catholic Archdiocese of Delhi, to drive home an often-repeated point
