Jute and Coveralls Promotion

National Jute Board has been implementing Jute –ICARE (Jute: Better Cultivation and Advanced Retting Exercise) for improvement in production and quality of raw jute under which it has planned to distribute 35 MT of certified jute seeds (JBO 2003 H and CO 58) on subsidized rate in collaboration with Jute Corporation of India (JCI) in the year 2021-22.  NJB has also planned to distribute1000 Seed drill machine, 1200 Cycle weeder machine and 750 MT CRIJAF Sona(including NINFET – Sathi). In addition, JCI has planned to commercially distribute1000MTofcertifiedseeds(JRO204) by sourcing through National Seeds Corporation. Also there was no manufacturing of PPE Coveralls in India prior to January, 2020. As per estimates based on the in puts given by industry, the country has made nearly 6 Crore Body Coveralls during April, 2020 to December, 2020.Nearly 1100 manufacturers had registered for PPE Body Coveralls manufacturing.The production capacity in the country achieved for PPE Body Coveralls is 4.5 lakh per day. The Government of India has given mandatory packaging of 100% of foodgrains and 20% of sugar in jute bags under the Jute Packaging and Materials Act, 1987. In case if jute mills are not able to supply the indented quantity of jute bags, Government has given a provision of maximum 30% of dilution against the total requirement. The Government exercises the dilution powers to avoid short supply of jute bags for packaging of foodgrains. During the Rabi 2020-21 season from the time of December, 2019 to June, 2020 a dilution of 7.01 lakh bales was granted to compensate for short supply of jute bags.