jute

Jute is typically cultivated locally for its edible leaves, not for fibre.

Jute sacks - used to transport cocoa, rice and charcoal - were draped over the National Theatre in Accra, Ghana's capital city.

On a recent afternoon, workers lined up outside one of the biggest jute factories in Asia, the Hukumchand Jute Mill in southern West Bengal.

Jute bales — compressed rock-hard to save space on shipment from India — weigh 400 pounds.

Angle, Saxon, and Jute tribes from what is today northwestern Germany and southern Denmark “came over into the island, and they began to increase so much, that they became terrible to the natives.”