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Geo-textiles are fabrics which allows liquids or gases to pass through it. Geo-textitle are used to separate, filter, reinforce, protect, or drain when used in soil. This article Suitability of Natural Fibres in Geotextile Applications by jute scientist P.K.Choudhury, Dr Mahuya Ghosh and Tapobrata…
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The Mughal chronicle Ain-i-Akbari (1590) mentions that people of rural India wore clothes made from white jute threads. Clothes used to be made from hand-spun fabric woven of such threads. Indians, especially Bengalis, have been using jute threads and other light-spun fabric thread in their…
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Choudhury P.K., P.K. Chatterjee and U. Datta. 1998. ‘Jute Geotextiles in Forestry’. National Seminar on JGT & JRC. Shillong.
——— and K. Jayachandran. 2002. ‘Jute as Geotextiles’. All India Seminar on Application of Jute Textile in Civil Engineering IEI. Kolkata.
De Haan, Arjan. 1997. ‘…
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Jute is a natural fibre produced from plants, also called as the ‘golden fibre’ due to its shiny golden colour. It is commonly referred to as Pat (Tossa pat, Sadha pat) in Bengali and Hindi, Mar pat in Assamese, Jhota in Oriya, Chanapai in Tamil, Janumu in Telegu, Chanambu in Malayalam, Joot in…
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Jute Geotextile (JGT) and agrotextile (JAT) made from fibres of jute plant have proved effective in addressing soil-related problems in civil engineering and agriculture. Years of research coupled with concurrent field applications have made it possible to develop appropriate fabrics for JGT and…
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Jute is an eco-friendly and bio-degradable natural product with no adverse effect on the environment. The processing of jute varieties such as Corchorus capsularis - white jute (Sada paat) and Hibiscus cannabinus (Mesta paat) are mainly used for jute cultivation in West Bengal nowadays.
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