Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation - BJMC, Official

Climate bestowed Bangladesh with the opportunity to become the natural home of the best quality Jute and for this Bangladesh is the world's largest grower of quality Jute. This gives Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation an advantage over other Jute goods manufacturer to produce and cater the needs of quality jute goods world over. Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation, well known as BJMC is the world's biggest state owned manufacturing and exporting organization of all kinds of Jute goods. Research, innovative experimentation towards product development and modernization approaches are the other contributing elements to its unmatched success it has established over the years.
Jute, a natural fibre used universally, is the bark of a slender shrub of tropical and subtropical origin. It belongs to the family of Tiliaceae. Fibres of two species of this family viz Corchorus Capsularies and Cochorus Olitorius are used to produce jute goods.

These two fibres yielding agricultural plants need alluvial land and heavy rainfall alternate with high temperature and windy air to grow well to give lustrous and strong fiber. Bangladesh is unique in providing for centuries all the physico-climatical elements for rich and luxuriant growth and high yield of jute crop because of its geographical location as an alluvial plate crisscrossed by innumerable rivers and tributaries sandwiched between the Himalayas in the North and East and the Bay of Bengal in the South.

Blessed with this specialized habitat and climatic condition, every year about half a million hectares of land is cultivated to yield about 1.0 million tons of jute fibres of different grades to meet the local industrial and domestic needs as well as for export to other countries for their consumption as industrial raw materials.

The cultivation of jute and its use as utility products in the life of peoples of this region dates back to some centuries. The great break-through made in textile technology at the dawn of industrial revolution helped jute come out as an amazing fabric from its age-old usages as cordage and rope.

Since then innumerable additions and modifications took place in its form and structure to groom it into materials those in times became indispensable for human life all over the world for their many specified and unspecified uses.

Jute is being ideally used for manufacturing

Bags and sacks for packing almost all kinds of agricultural products, minerals, fertilizer, cement etc.
Wool packs and cotton bales.
Cordage and Twines.
Webbing to cover inner springs of automobiles and to upholster furniture.
Cargo separator in ships.
Brattice cloth for mine ventilation and partition.
Filling material in cable.
Roofing and floor covering apparel.
Wall covering and furnishing fabric.
Footwear lining.
Fashion accessories.
Bio-engineering and erosion control fabric and many more.

By virtue of their origin, Bangladesh jute and jute products are acclaimed world over as the best quality jute for its colour, texture, luster, length and strength. For this reason Jute is lovingly branded as the “Golden Fiber" all over the world.

The cultivation of jute and manufacturing of its products plays vital role in the socio-economic condition of Bangladesh.

About 50 million people of this land are directly or indirectly involved in various activities related to jute and jute manufacturing.
About 35 million farmers are engaged in cultivation of jute, 0.3 million skilled workers are directly associated in manufacturing process, about 0.2 million people are directly engaged in trading of jute, jute goods, transportation and other related business.
Contribution of jute sector in the GDP is about 5%.
Contribution of Jute and Jute manufacturing in the national employment is about l0% to l5%.
Jute being the main cash crop for the farmers of the country largely contributes to the advancement of rural economy.
The apical tender shoot and leaves of jute is a nourishing vegetable supplement extensively consumed by rich and poor throughout the country.
Its long left out stem is a common and plentiful alternative for use as firewood and making fence of rural huts.
It is as well as the cheapest available substitute of wood to produce paper pulp and particle-board and depending on abundant supply of this by-product allied industries have already developed and functioning in the country.

Leaves those shed during the growth of the plant by decomposing act as natural fertilizer which enriches as well as sustain the fertility of the soil for the next crop to grow well.
Cultivation of jute as a yearly renewable crop helps sustaining the bio-diversity .

Jute being the natural fiber is the most environmental friendly because of its inherent properties. It has lots of environmental advantages over other man made artificial polymer fibre products. Some unique environment friendly properties of jute are:

Jute being hygroscopic and auriferous permits normal breathing and humidity to its content and thus ensures the healthy storage of commodities.
Jute being natural is bio-degradable for which it does not plug the natural pore of the soil and its surface. Therefore, plants and soil biota can normally grow and flourish.
Jute has no adverse effect on human body and nature as a whole.