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Jute :

• Jute is India’s major cash crop.


• High temperature (24^0 - 350 C) heavy rain (125-200 cm) and low plain land

are favorable conditions for cultivation of jute

• India is the largest producer of jute (60%) in the world.


• Before Independence, India had monopoly on jute and jute items, but

after partition, 80% jute producing areas remained in the eastern

Pakistan( now Bangladesh).

• It caused the shortage of raw materials for the Indian Jute mills.. later on

cultivation of jute was encouraged in India which increased its

production.

• West Bengal is the largest producer (81%) of jute in India followed by

Bihar and Assam. It is cultivated also in the deltai regions of the

Mahanadi in Orissa.

• ‘Mesta’ is a variety of Jute.