'Diluting jute packaging norms can fuel suicides'
The Jute Commissioner's office has indicated that a dilution of the mandatory criteria of 90% jute packaging for foodgrains can cause low demand and hence, farmer suicides and large-scale unemployment. Earlier, the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices had demanded the reduction of foodgrain packaging to 75% and a complete exemption on the prevailing 20% jute packaging criteria for sugar. 