The natural fibre used in the fabric of our jute bags comes from the stem and outer skin of the jute plant. Jute is a rain-fed crop that doesn't need much in the way of fertilizer or pesticides. Production is concentrated around the Ganges delta region of India and Bangladesh where the warm, wet climate during the monsoon season provides ideal growing conditions. It takes between four and six months for the plants reach a height of around 12 feet (3.5m) when they are harvested. The harvested stems are then tied together and soaked in water to soften before being stripped of theirfibres.

The climatic conditions of Bangladesh are suitable for harvesting jute, enabling the country to be one of the top exporters of jute. In the year of 2007-08, Bangladesh produced about 990,000 tons of raw jute of which it exported 477,000 tons. Thus in these years, Bangladesh held a share of 63.26% of the global exports of jute goods. Once it was called the ?Golden Fibre of Bangladesh? because many people of our country lived on it and we have earned a huge amount of foreign money by selling jute products.

Jute is the second most important vegetable fibre after cotton. Jute is used chiefly to make cloth for wrapping bales of raw cotton, and to make sacks and coarse cloth. The fibers are also woven into curtains, chair coverings, carpets, area rugs, hessian cloth, and backing for linoleum.

1.      Environmentally friendly, jute fibre can be recycled.

2.      It is 100% Biodegradable thus prevents land pollutions.

3.      It will lessen the use of harmful plastic materials used for packing.

4.      You can eat it! Apparently the leaves taste a bit like spinach.

5.      The sticks that remain after harvesting jute fibre are used for various purposes.