Jute, Bangladesh & India

Dacca, Bangladesh23.81°N 90.41°E

computed criticality10/100

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Bangladesh & India ~90% of world jute

2023

Fault line

Jute, the natural fibre of sacks and packaging cloth, grows at scale only in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta. A regional monoculture that plastic fibre rivals but ecology brings back.

Actors

Bangladeshi & Indian growers

jute mills

Sources

FAOSTAT / Wikipedia ↗estimate

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