Jayajit Dash / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar July 29, 2009, 0:56 IST

The harvesting of jute crop in the current season is likely to come to a standstill due to lack of proper retting facility in jute growing areas of West Bengal, Bihar and Assam.

The acute water shortage in these jute growing states has affected the retting process thereby spoiling the quality of crop.