Textiles and Jute Adviser Brigadier Fashioned (retd) M Sakhawat Hussain nowadays (30 September) entreated the USA to put money into Bangladesh’s jute and jute merchandise producing industries describing it as a truly promising sector.
“I call upon the USA to approach up with investments in Bangladesh’s jute and jute merchandise industries because it is a valuable and capability sector,” he said whereas the US Embassy Fee d’Affaires Helen LaFave paid a courtesy call on him at the latter’s ministry online page of job at Secretariat in Dhaka.
The adviser said there are astronomical scopes for the international investments in the public jute and textiles mills in Bangladesh, including that Bangladesh savor ample expert and expert manpower in the sector.
The utilize of jute and jute merchandise were exhibiting increasing style to chase away the environmental disaster at some level of the globe by cutting back dependency on the usage of plastic and polythene, he said.
The authorities has already imposed a ban on the usage of polythene or polypropylene bags in the full mountainous-retail outlets in the country from 1 October, he said.
“So, the luggage of jute and dresses will seemingly be readily obtainable in all mountainous retail outlets as substitute of the polythene bags,” he said.
Sakhawat, additionally shipping adviser, has sought cooperation from the US to construct dockyard in the Matarbari Deep Seaport to boot to their funding in Matarbari Deep Seaport and ship building industries.
The US Embassy charge d’affaires said the US and Bangladesh would work collectively in future to chop the commerce deficit between the two friendly worldwide locations, pointing out that the worldwide locations savor closely been engaged on commerce, commerce and rather a few bilateral factors for mutual pursuits.