Plans to expand a museum celebrating Dundee's jute industry have received preliminary backing from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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She was the first to gather evidence on housing and the health of women working in Dundee's jute factories.
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Indian producers retort that Bangladesh's jute factories, just under half of which are owned by the state, benefit from unfair export subsidies.
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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.
Girija worked in the Biratnagar jute mill, Nepal's first industry.
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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.
Many of today's largest Indian corporations, including those run by the Tata and Birla families, got their start trading jute.
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