Related Keywords: Chief Ministers advised, developed microbial assisted retting among farmers, earnings of jute farmers increased, Improved Cultivation and Advanced Retting Exercise for Jute, intensively in few blocks in West Bengal and Assam, Jute ICARE, launched to popularize better agronomic practices, pilot basis, take up Jute ICARE programme under RKVV
Improved Cultivation and Advanced Retting Exercise for Jute (Jute – ICARE) was launched in 2015 to popularize/introduce some of the better agronomic practices and recently developed microbial-assisted retting among farmers intensively in a few blocks in West Bengal and Assam on pilot basis. As a result of these interventions, the earnings of jute farmers have increased by more than Rs.10,000 per hectare.