{"id":2462,"date":"2023-02-23T05:38:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T00:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2025-03-25T21:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:09:26","slug":"jute-packaging-act-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/jute-packaging-act-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Jute Packaging Act, 1987"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Jute Packaging Act, 1987:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The reservation norms unde JPM Act provide for direct employment to 3.70 lakh workers and protect the interest of approximately 40 lakh farm families in the jute sector.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0It <strong>protects the interest of Jute farmers, workers and persons<\/strong> engaged in jute goods\u2019 production<\/li>\n<li>The Mandatory norms for full reservation for packaging of food grains and 20% reservation for packaging of sugar in jute bags will be a big boost for West Bengal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about Jute<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Jute is one of the most important natural fibres after cotton in terms of cultivation and usage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0Climatic conditions required for its growth<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Temperature:<\/strong> Between 25-35\u00b0C<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rainfall:<\/strong> Around 150-250 cm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Soil Type:<\/strong> Well-drained alluvial soil.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>India is the largest producer of jute followed by Bangladesh and China.<\/li>\n<li>It is mainly grown in eastern India because of the rich alluvial soil of the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta.<\/li>\n<li>In India, major jute-producing states include <strong>West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya and Tripura.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>\u00a0Q1) What is Jute SMART?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an e-government initiative which was launched in December 2016 to promote transparency in the jute sector which provides an integrated platform for procurement of sacking by Government agencies<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1901434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Reservation norms for Jute Packaging Materials for Jute Year 2022-23 under JPM Act, 1987<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jute Packaging Act, 1987 protects the interest of Jute farmers and workers engaged in jute goods\u2019 production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}