Jute Life Style Expo 2013 Bangladesh
Jute Life Style Expo 2013 Sweeping away carbon footprints with jute revival in Bangladesh Jute used to be the country’s largest foreign exchange earner till the 1970s and then slowly with its decline, we saw the largest jute mill in the world – Adamjee in Narayanganj – shut down in 2002. Recently, the discovery of jute genome sequencing has made us more optimistic about revival of the fibre. Bangladeshi scientists have successfully decoded the vital genome sequence of jute, of which this country is the world’s largest exporter. After this discovery, opportunities have been created to evolve different stress tolerant (salinity, drought, insects and pests) jute varieties. And in the series of this success, Traidcraft Exchange (TX) and TARANGO organised Jute Lifestyle Expo’13 from May 10-12. The Opening Ceremony was held on Friday, May 10 at Dhaka Art Centre in Rabindra Sarovar, Dhanmondi. Around 5500 people thronged to the exposition and or...