---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Bimal Sar kar <[email protected]> Date: Thu 23 Aug, 2018, 7:05 PM Subject: Re: AN ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY PACKING MATERIAL : CORCHORUS CAPSULARIS ( JUTE ) To: J.M. Garg <[email protected]>
Thank you Garg ji. With regards, Bimal On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 12:06, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Bimal ji, > I think it may be *Corchorus olitorius* L. > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/m/malvaceae/corchorus/corchorus-olitorius> > as > per details herein and as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jute > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Bimal Sar kar <[email protected]> > Date: 8 August 2018 at 06:58 > Subject: AN ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY PACKING MATERIAL : CORCHORUS CAPSULARIS > ( JUTE ) > To: > > > For last few days there are many uploads on use of indiscriminate use of > plastic as packing material and the devastating affect it created for the > planet earth. I come from a village in Bangladesh ( then it was East > Pakistan ), Jute was the main cash crop in that part of the sub-continent , > and we used to read in geography " JUTE IS CALLED THE GOLDEN FIBER ". > Even in 1964 when I migrated to India, jute was the main packing material. > Rice, atta , dal, sugar even cement used to come in jute made bags. > Marketing bag used to be jute made. Ropes used to be made of jute. Now you > see hardly any material used for packing is made of jute. We stupid men > realized the problem a little late. We are behaving like " Kalidas ", who > chopped the branch of a tree on which he was sitting. Of late in some > places indiscriminate use of plastic has been banned. So there is a chance > for jute to have a come back, only if govt is serious about it. > Attaching 7 images which shows the journey of jute from a plant to the > fiber. In addition to its use as a paching material tender leaves of jute > is used as a vegetable. Jute stick has many uses in the villages. > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- more than 2975 members & 3,00,000 messages on 25.7.18) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which 1,00,000 > are directly displayed). > > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
