OBJECTIVES

After the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971 Jute Sector was taken up with special and realistic approach. The Bangladesh Govt. promulgated the Jute Act in 1974 and established Bangladesh Jute Research Institute (BJRI) with specific mandate which was modified in 1996 with the following major functions.

• To promote agriculture, technological and economic research on jute and allied fibers and their manufactures and dissemination of results thereof.

• To organize production, testing and supply of improved pedigree of jute seeds and multiplication, procurement & their distribution to recognized organization, selected growers and such other agencies as may be approved by the Board.

• To set up research centers, sub-stations, pilot projects and farms in different regions of the country for carrying out research on different problems of jute and allied fiber crops, jute products and allied materials.

• To establish project areas for demonstration of new varieties of jute developed by the institute and to train the farmers for cultivation of these varieties of jute.

• To establish annual reports, monographs, bulletins, and other literatures relating to jute research and the activities of the institute.

• To organize training of officers and progressing farmers on modern improvement method of cultivation of jute and allied fiber crops and also to train technical hands for utilization of technological findings and

• To do and perofrm such other activities as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act.

Background

    The Bangladesh Jute Research Institute is the oldest mono-crop research institute of the country. Jute Research was first started in Dhaka with the creation of a Fiber Expert's position and assumption of the responsibility by Sir R.S. Finlow in 1904 under the Bengal Department of Agriculture (1904-1939). To intensify research on jute and allied fibers, Jute Agricultural Research Laboratory (JARL) was established by the Indian Central Jute Committee (ICJC) in Dhaka in 1939. During 1936-47 the effective infrastructure required for a board spectrum of Jute Research activities was established. After the partition of India in 1947, in the light of erstwhile ICJC. Pakistan Central Jute Committee (PCJC) in turn reorganized the existing JARL was Jute Research Institute (JRI) at the present site in 1951. Later on in 1963 jute technological/industrial research activities/industrial research activities were initiated in the present site as an independent body in the name of Jute Technological Research Board with the help of the then Pakistan Jute Mills Association. consequently it was amalgamated in the PCJC as agile organization as a separate project with the different budget provision including foreign currency allocation. Subsequently, Bangladesh Government promulgated the jute act in 1974 (modified in 1996) as establised Bangladesh Jute Research Institute (BJRI).

    To perform the functions, the Institute have three main branches, namely.

                1. Agriculture Research on Jute.

                2.Technological Research on Jute, and

                3. Marketing and Economic Research on Jute.