IJMA urges to ban use of purchased yarn

Kolkata: Jute mills have asked the jute commissioner to issue an advisory prohibiting the use of purchased jute yarn for the manufacture of B Twill bags (used for foodgrain packaging) meant to be supplied on government account against production control orders (PCSOs).

The request was made by the Indian Jute Mills Association (IJMA) chairman Raghavendra Gupta in a recent letter to the regulator following weak order flow for the mills.

The IJMA argued that factories involved in the conversion of “intermediate” jute goods such as “yarn” into jute bags should not qualify as jute mills. The definition of a jute mill in the Jute and Jute Textiles Control Order, 2016 states that a manufacturer must be mandatorily involved in the conversion of “raw jute” into jute textiles by mechanical process or electrical process or both processes.