Crops

Jute

Citation Formats

General Reference

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. "Jute." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/crops/jute.

APA Style

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. (n.d.). Jute. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/crops/jute

BibTeX

@misc{agricultureandfarmingatlas-jute,
  author = {Agriculture and Farming Atlas},
  title = {Jute},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/crops/jute},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Jute is a long, rough bast fiber spun into coarse, strong thread, historically central to the economy and culture of Bengal, including present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and Assam. It has been cultivated since the third millennium BC, with early use traced to the Indus Valley civilisation, and remains valuable today as a biodegradable material for sacking, hessian cloth, carpet backing and erosion-control matting, alongside long-standing culinary use of its leaves.

Facts

Scientific Name

Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis 1

Crop Class

Fiber 1

Domestication Region

South Asia (Indus Valley civilisation; centered on Bengal, including present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and Assam) 1

Domesticated When (Circa)

Since the third millennium BC 1

Sources

1. Jute (Wikipedia)

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