Bangladesh Jute Research Institute is the oldest mono corporate research institute in Bangladesh, operated by Bangladesh government.
History
In 1936 the Indian Central Jute Committee established the Jute Agricultural Research Laboratory in
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, formerly known as Dacca, is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest ...
. After the partition of India the government of Pakistan established the Pakistan Central Jute Committee which reorganised the Jute Research Laboratory as the Jute Research Institute in 1951. After the Independence of
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mo ...
the Jute Act was passed and the institute got its present name, Bangladesh Jute Research Institute. In 2013 scientists at the institute decoded the genome of local jute variety. The institute has developed salinity resistant jute plant.
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1936 establishments in India
Research institutes in Bangladesh
Organisations based in Dhaka
Jute industry of Bangladesh