Jute fibre and its importance RASHTRIYA KRISHI Volume 12 Issue 2 December, 2017 151-152 e ISSN–2321–7987 | Article |Visit us : www.researchjournal.co.in| Jute fibre and its importance Adya Twari1 and Aastha Khatri2 1Department of Textiles and Apparel Designing, College of Home Science, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technnology, Udaipur (Rajasthan) India 2Department of Home Science Extension and Communication Management, College of Home Science, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technnology, Udaipur (Rajasthan) India (Email :
[email protected]) Jute is a natural fibre popularly known as the golden lusture, high tensile strength, low extensibility, moderate fibre. It is one of the cheapest and the strongest of all natural heat and fire resistance and long staple vegetable fibre fibres and considered as fibre of the future. Jute is second that can be spun into strong, coarse thread, and one of the only to cotton in world’s production of textile fibres. natural most affordable fibre and also second to cotton in Production : Jute is a bio degradable crop grown mainly variety of uses.It is used in making home textiles, floor in the Ganges delta. The crop of jute is rain-fed. It requires coverings, cardigans, soft sweaters and espadrilles. Plus, alluvial soil with stagnant water and does not really need uses also include for creating composites, geotextiles, high- pesticides or fertilizer. Jute requires 5–8 cm of rainfall performing technical textiles and home textiles. These weekly. Jute is harvested between 120 days to 150 days products are all in different colors. If you are thinking of from sowing when the flowers have shed.