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2. 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.

3. Jute - Wikipedia

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   Jute fabric Coffee sacks made of jute Jute fiber is extracted from retted stem of jute plants. Individual jute fibers can range from very fine to very coarse, and the varied fibers are suited for a variety of uses. The coarser fibers, which are called jute butts, are used alone or combined with other fibers to make many products: Hessian cloth ...

4. Corchorus - Wikipedia

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   Corchorus is a genus of about 40–100 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world. [1]Different common names are used in different contexts, with jute applying to the fiber produced from the plant, and jute mallow leaves for the leaves used as a vegetable.

5. Corchorus olitorius - Wikipedia

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   Corchorus olitorius is an erect herbaceous plant, fairly branched and grows about 1.5 metres (5 ft) high. However, if grown for fibre production, it can reach heights up to 4 m (13 ft). However, if grown for fibre production, it can reach heights up to 4 m (13 ft).

6. Corchorus capsularis - Wikipedia

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   Corchorus capsularis (also known as patsun), commonly known as white jute, [2] is a shrub species in the family Malvaceae. It is one of the sources of jute fibre, considered to be of finer quality than fibre from Corchorus olitorius, the main source of jute. The leaves are used as a foodstuff and the leaves, unripe fruit and the roots are used ...

7. Bast fibre - Wikipedia

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   Plants that have been used for bast fibre include flax (from which linen is made), hemp, jute, kenaf, kudzu, linden, milkweed, nettle, okra, paper mulberry, ramie, and roselle hemp. [citation needed] Bast fiber from oak trees forms the oldest preserved woven fabrics in the world.