Sehwag1830 Posted June 24, 2012 Posted June 24, 2012 India's government in the 1980s passed a law stipulating that 100% of the annual wheat and rice crop must be packed in jute bags.But as India's wheat harvest has boomed, helped by higher quality seeds and greater availability of fertilizers, the jute industry, with its aging British-era machinery and regular labor strikes, has found it hard to keep up. India's annual wheat crop has risen 82% since 1990, while output of jute products, including sacking, is up by a little over a third in the period. In Madhya Pradesh, a large wheat-growing state in central India, government officials say they faced a shortage of jute bags this harvest that left them scrambling to buy plastic sacking for the cropÃÂn emergency measure allowed to cover only 20% of a state's harvest if jute bags aren't available. http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304441404577480341888519600.html?mg=reno64-wsj Why is Bengal behind most of the problems in India ? Mamta Banerjee, Jute, Naxalism.
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