Rishra is in Hooghly. The jute belt is a chain of such towns running along both banks of the Hooghly, each built around one or more mills, with worker housing, the mill gate and the river within walking distance of each other. It is one of the oldest continuously industrial landscapes in India.
Raw jute is grown in the Bengal districts and in Assam and Bihar, retted and graded there, then baled and sold into the mill belt that runs along both banks of the Hooghly. A mill batches and softens the fibre, cards and spins it, weaves hessian or sacking, then finishes, cuts and stitches it into bags before dispatch. Government sacking orders and open-market export orders run side by side through the same looms.
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Kolkata, West Bengal
A fully government-owned enterprise operating mills including National, Alexandra, Union, Khardah, Kinnison and RBHM, and a supplier of B-Twill sacking.
Kolkata, West Bengal
Operates the Victoria Jute Works at Telinipara, Hooghly.
Kolkata, West Bengal
A Kolkata jute manufacturing company.
Kolkata, West Bengal
A mill in the Naihati belt, known for food-grade bags used in grains, sugar and pulses.
Kolkata, West Bengal
A long-established mill company of the northern belt.
Kolkata, West Bengal
A mill at Garifa, 24 Parganas (North).
Kolkata, West Bengal
A West Bengal jute mill company with an administrative office in the city.
Kolkata, West Bengal
A jute manufacturing company of the Bengal belt.
Kolkata, West Bengal
An IJMA member unit at Hat Bauria.
Kolkata, West Bengal
An IJMA member mill company.
Kolkata, West Bengal
A jute mill company in the Howrah belt.
Kolkata, West Bengal
A mill of the northern Kolkata jute belt.
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