KHULNA. Oct 9: State Minister for Land Rashed Mosharraf has said the present government is trying with utmost sincerity to promote raw Jute market abroad, reports UNB.

With a view to achieving this objective, a high powered 9-member jute delegation was recently sent to China and South Korea, the state minister said while addressing the raw Jute exporters and jute traders at Bangladesh Jute Association office at Daulatpur of the district on Tuesday.

Mosharraf advised the Jute exporters to keep vigilant watch tn exporting Jute as desired by the foreign buyers.

China being the largest raw Jute importing country agreed to import more than 10 lakh bales of raw Jute from Bangladesh in the current fiscal.

The Jute traders demanded a Jute policy that would ensure fair price to the Jute growers

Former MP Abdur Razzaque Akand. Mia Monsur All and senior vice chairman of BJA also spoke on the occasion, said a PID handout today