Some jute producers have reneged on contracts to sell to the government, exacerbating shortages, Ms. Kanwar added.
Plans to expand a museum celebrating Dundee's jute industry have received preliminary backing from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Farmers in many flood plains plant crops that grow underwater, such as deep water aman rice or jute.
And, if the jute baron scares other poorly performing companies, so will India.
She was the first to gather evidence on housing and the health of women working in Dundee's jute factories.
Farmers in Bengal have used fibers from the tall jute plant for centuries to weave into bags and clothing.
Many of today's largest Indian corporations, including those run by the Tata and Birla families, got their start trading jute.
Indian producers retort that Bangladesh's jute factories, just under half of which are owned by the state, benefit from unfair export subsidies.
"It wasn't easy, as in those early days India was considered an exporter of tea and jute, not high-tech services, " he smiles.
Former jute trader, split from brothers and moved into banking, later infrastructure.
Paras Jain, the state's food minister, said he was going to ask the government to procure jute bags ahead of time to avoid problems.
But New Delhi continues to play a large role in the industry, setting prices and buying almost the entire output of the nation's jute producers.
The jute mills are gone but Dundee West remains a hive of industrial and academic activity with a mixture of light engineering and cutting-edge research technology.
Dundee was once famed as a city of jute, jam and journalism, but is being successfully remodelled as the city of discovery, increasing tourism and inward investment.
Girija worked in the Biratnagar jute mill, Nepal's first industry.
The former jute mill in the Blackness area of the city opened as a museum in 1996 and is dedicated to the textile industry that once dominated the city's economy.
In the 19th century, the British set up a factory in Dundee, Scotland, to process raw jute into yarn before weaving it into bags for storing coal and other commodities.
Arti Kanwar, deputy jute commissioner, a Kolkata-based Indian bureaucrat whose office buys jute sacking from producers, said the government for years has supported the industry by procuring at above market prices.
We are staring at a wall of handsome, hand-tooled saddles: English, Western, and, for the die-hards, a version of a buttero saddle in rich, leather-trimmed suede, filled with jute, horsehair, and hay over a heavy wooden yoke.
As the number of mineworkers has declined steadily over the past several years, a small manufacturing base has developed based on farm products that support the milling, canning, leather, and jute industries, as well as an apparel-assembly sector.
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