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2. Jute - Wikipedia

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   Jute is used in the manufacture of fabrics, such as Hessian cloth, sacking, scrim, carpet backing cloth (CBC), and canvas. Hessian is lighter than sacking, and it is used for bags, wrappers, wall-coverings, upholstery, and home furnishings. Sacking, which is a fabric made of heavy jute fibers, has its use in the name.

3. Hessian fabric - Wikipedia

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   The transportation of agricultural products often involves bags made from hessian jute fabric. Hessian jute bags (commonly known as gunnysacks) are used to ship wool, tobacco, and cotton, as well as foodstuffs such as coffee, flour, vegetables, and grains. Hessian jute's ability to allow the contents of bags to breathe makes it excellent for ...

4. Jute cultivation - Wikipedia

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   Jute fiber being dried in sunlight after natural or microbial retting. Retting is the process of extracting fibers from the tough stem or bast of the bast fiber plants. The available retting processes are: mechanical retting (hammering), chemical retting (boiling & applying chemicals), steam/vapor/dew retting, and water or microbial retting.

5. Gunny sack - Wikipedia

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   Sack made from hemp burlap Stacks of coffee bags, Ethiopia Potato sacks transported by horses in Colorado, 1890s. A gunny sack, also known as a gunny shoe, burlap sack, hessian sack or tow sack, is a large sack, traditionally made of burlap (Hessian fabric) formed from jute, hemp, sisal, or other natural fibres, usually in the crude spun form of tow.

6. Corchorus olitorius - Wikipedia

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   Jute mallow or Jew's mallow or Nalita jute (Corchorus olitorius, also known as "Jute leaves", [2] "Tossa jute", "Mloukheyeh" and "West African sorrel") is a species of shrub in the family Malvaceae. Together with C. capsularis it is the primary source of jute fiber.

7. Jute trade - Wikipedia

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   The jute trade is centered mainly around India's West Bengal and Assam, and Bangladesh. The major producing country of jute is India [1] and biggest exporter is Bangladesh, due to their natural fertile soil [citation needed]. Production of jute by India and Bangladesh are respectively 1.968 million ton and 1.349 million metric ton. [2]