is the golden fibre which meets all the standards of goods packing with its natural, renewable, bio-degradable and eco-friendly products. The first jute mill in India was established at Rishra near, Kolkata in by the English man George Auckland. India tops in the production of raw jute and jute goods and second in the export of jute goods next to Bangladesh. Jute production includes gunny bags, canvas, pack sheets, jute web, carpets, corsage, hessians and twines.
Now jute is also being used in plastic furniture and insulation bleached fibres to blend with wool. It is also mixed with cotton to make LEGEND COTTON MAJOR INDUSTRIES IN INDIA SILK IRON & STEEL SUGAR PAPER N S E W Not to Scale National Jute Board, headquarter at Kolkata. India - Resources and Industries carpet and blankets. The major jute producing areas are in West Bengal and concentrated along the Hooghly river within the radius of six kilometre of Kolkata.
Titagarh, Jagatdat, Budge- Budge, Haora and Bhadreshwar are the chief centres of jute industry. Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh and Odisha are the other jute goods producing areas. c) Silk Industry India has been well known for the production of silk since the ancient times. India is the second largest producer of raw silk next only to China.
Karnataka is the largest producer of silk. Other major producers of silk are West Bengal, Jammu & Kashmir, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Assam and Tamil Nadu states. Office of the Development Commissioner for Handlooms was set up as an attached non-participating office on 20th November, under the Ministry of Commerce. At present, it is functioning under the Ministry of Textiles, headquarter is at Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi.
d) Sugar Industry Sugarcan be produced from sugarcane, sugar-beets or any other crop which have sugar content. In India, sugarcane is the main source of sugar. At present this is the second largest agro-based industry of India after cotton textiles. India is the world’s second largest producer of sugarcane after Brazil.