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Related Keywords: Centre to evaluate the project, Growing popularity, helping farmers get better prices, Improved Cultivation and Advanced Retting Exercise for Jute, initial indications of success, Jute-ICARE project, likely to appoint, National Jute Board, produce, resulted in a higher yield of the crop, third party government agency

With the growing popularity of the Improved Cultivation and Advanced Retting Exercise for Jute (Jute-ICARE) project and initial indications of success, the Centre to evaluate the project is likely to appoint a third party government agency, an official said here on Tuesday.

Under the project, the area coverage has been increased from around 12,000 hectares covering four blocks in West Bengal and Assam in 2015 to one lakh hectares covering 90 blocks in jute producing states in 2018.

Related Keywords: an indigenous natural fibre company, boost productivity and foreign exchange earnings, engenders multiple investment opportunities, Ogun State Government, partnership to empower indigenous cotton farmers, process and market cotton in the state, produce, signed a MoU with Arewacotton Limited

Ogun State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Arewacotton Limited, an indigenous natural fibre company, to produce, process and market cotton in the state. The partnership is expected to empower 5,000 indigenous cotton farmers and their dependants and also engenders multiple investment opportunities estimated at billions of naira.