Latest reviewed evidence
India's BIS register identifies IS 271:2020 as the current grading code for White, Tossa and Daisee uncut Indian jute. The Jute Commissioner set the 2025-26 minimum support price for TD-3 and W-3 raw jute at INR 5,650 per quintal, with notified grade differentials of plus INR 700 for TD-1 or W-1 and minus INR 775 for TD-5 or W-5. Those are dated Indian policy support values, not live transaction prices, export quotations or delivered estimates. FAO's retting project shows that fibre quality depends materially on processing, and its historical machinery figures are process evidence rather than current capacity or supply.
India raw-jute TD-3 and W-3 minimum support price
5650
Indian rupees per quintal · 2025-26 season, notification dated 14 May 2025
India top-grade differential over TD-3 or W-3
700
Indian rupees per quintal · 2025-26 season, TD-1 or W-1
India lowest listed raw-jute grade differential
-775
Indian rupees per quintal · 2025-26 season, TD-5 or W-5
FAO single-roller ribboning output in project trials
80
kilograms per hectare · FAO-IJO project report published 1998
FAO double-roller ribboning output in project trials
180
kilograms per hectare · FAO-IJO project report published 1998
White, Tossa, Daisee, mesta and manufactured jute stay separate
India's Jute Grading and Marking Rules distinguish White jute, Corchorus capsularis, from Tossa and Daisee jute, Corchorus olitorius, and define fibre-quality terms such as colour, croppy fibre, dazed fibre, fineness, gummy fibre and knots. Mesta or bimli and manufactured forms such as yarn, hessian and sacking are different products. Atlas retains botanical or commercial identity, raw or manufactured form, intended use and the applicable grade or product standard rather than collapsing them into a generic jute label.
Grade is an evidence bundle, not a seller adjective
BIS lists IS 271:2020 for grading White, Tossa and Daisee uncut Indian jute, while the official marking rules define the characteristics used to describe fibre condition. A comparable raw-fibre lot should preserve crop year, variety, declared grade, colour, root and cutting condition, strength and fineness evidence where tested, moisture, bark, gum, sticks and other defects, bale marks, sampling method, laboratory or inspection result and evidence date. A grade claim without its lot and inspection basis remains unverified.
Retting and extraction materially affect fibre quality
FAO describes retting as the controlled microbial separation of fibre from the woody core and says retting and extraction have a profound effect on fibre quality and manufacturing performance. Its project distinguished stem retting from ribbon retting and reported different outputs for single- and double-roller devices. Atlas therefore records harvesting maturity, stem or ribbon process, water and retting conditions, extraction and washing method, drying, storage, contamination and test evidence when those fields are available.
A standard or support price does not establish a delivered jute price
IS 271 identifies a grading framework, and the Jute Commissioner's 2025-26 schedule is a dated Indian minimum-support policy by grade. Neither proves the grade, current availability, exportable condition, transaction value, freight or destination cost of a present lot. A delivered comparison still needs permitted current observations for the exact fibre identity and grade, crop and lot, origin, quantity, currency, Incoterm, destination, delivery window, route costs and information vintage. Atlas withholds a physical estimate when those observations or usage rights are missing.