The local jute industry employed forty thousand people in the early years of the present century.

The jute collections cover the entire history of the jute industry.

It is still has an important jute industry, with products traded via road, rail, and river.

This company later was also responsible in setting up formal jute industry in India.

Calcutta is noted as one of the major centre for industries including the jute industry.

Because of the jute industries in Madaripur, it attracted many businessmen.

Throughout the Industrial Revolution, the local jute industry caused the city to grow rapidly.

The collapse of the jute industry, they argue, was well handled for three reasons.

First, the jute industry was protected from cheap imports by the state.

By 1911 the percentage of persons employed in Dundee's jute industry who were women had risen to 75%.