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India seeks to restore jute's lost glory / V000_9FC8Q4
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From luxury boutiques to royal wedding favours, jute is growing in popularity worldwide as demand for alternatives to plastic soars.
At a colonial-era jute mill in India's West Bengal state, hundreds of workers labour in a vast hall covered in fine dust, but the environment-friendly fibre is hanging by a thread in India, the world's biggest producer, despite recent efforts to revive the industry. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES