Despite the successive governments' pinning high hopes on earning foreign exchange from jute exports, the optimism continues to peter off. Following impressive harvests after investing large volumes of capital, they mostly face disillusionment. It stems from the incredibly low price at the local buyers' end. As a result, the growers' high spirit and the renewed enthusiasm over jute cultivation keep dying away.
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Against this backdrop few people in the country, except the compulsive optimists, can hope to see jute enjoy its glory days of the past. To speak without mincing words, the days of the fabled 'golden fibre' have long been over. Amid the pervasive atmospheric pollutions, both the environmentalists and ecology-conscious general people looked to jute. As it's a biodegradable agro- product, day-to-day objects made of it do not pose any threat to humans. The government's generously funnelling of monetary stimulus into the jute products sector eventually failed to attract adequate number of clients in both domestic and overseas markets. Market experts point the finger at the sloppy finishing of the products for the clients' indifference towards them. In the times of universal opposition to polythene and other synthetic goods, the public apathy towards items made of the ecology-friendly jute is puzzling. For Bangladesh, the decline in jute cultivation marks a major turn in the country's ...
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