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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.
