Textiles and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui on Tuesday said in the Parliament that the country exported locally produced raw jute to 69 countries of the world in 2011-2012 fiscal year. “The countries are UAE, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Benin, Brazil, Belarus, Canada, Switzerland, China, France, UK, Italy, Japan, Indonesia, Poland, Pakistan, Thailand and Russia, he said this while responding to a tabled question of lawmaker M Shahriar Alam (Rajshahi-6).
Siddiqui also said the country produced around 7 lakh tonnes of jute products and the products were exported to 105 countries in the same fiscal year.
-With The Independent input
