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annual report 2010-11million during 2009-10 (April-March) whichis given in the table below. Floor covering&shopping bags are the two majorcomponent which together accounts fornearly 97% of JDP exports. USA is thesingle biggest market for Indian juteDiversified product importing JDP worthRs 83.96 Crores. USA, UK, Germany, Italy& Spain are the major importing countriesaccounting for 67 % of total JDP exportduring 2010-11 (April-May). Product-wiseexport of Jute Diversified Production fromIndia is given at table 6.9.IMPORT OF JUTE GOODS AND RAWJUTEDuring the year 2009-10 volume of importof jute goods stood at 112.8 thousand MTvalued at Rs 453.20 crores as against70.94 thousand MT valued at Rs 202.99crores in 2008-09. This implies a rise of59% in terms of quantity and 123% interms of value over 2008-09. Import ofraw jute has also increased. Volume ofimport of raw jute during 2009-10 stood at82.9 thousand MT valued at Rs 197.42crores as against 59.04 thousand MTvalued at Rs 89.00 crores in 2008-09.Thus import of raw jute both in terms ofquantity and value have increased by40% and 122% respectively. Import ofjute goods during 2010-11(April-October)however decreased by 15.85% to 46.2thousand MT as against 54.9 thousandMT in the corresponding period of lastyear. Import of raw jute has also decreasedby 48.44 % to 31.5 thousand MT asagainst 61.1 thousand MT during thecorresponding period of last year. Trendin Import of jute goods and raw jute isgiven in the table 6.10.PRICE SITUATION OF RAW JUTEThe jute season 2009-10 began with acarry over stock of 8.00 lakh bales withestimated production of 90.0 lakh balesand import of 3 lakh bales making a totalavailability of 101.00 lakh bales. Therewas no MSP operation in this year as theprices were above the MSP. The juteseason 2010-11 began with a carry overstock of 12.00 lakh bales with estimatedproduction of 107.00 lakh bales and importof 5 lakh bales making a total availabilityof 124.00 lakh bales. There has been noMSP operation so far this year.Table 6.9( Value Rs Million )Product 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11(April-May)Floor covering 2133.90 1675.70 1825.80 1242.40 1268.90 203.25Hand & shopping bag 880.03. 703.10 1122.80 1656.90 981.32 166.55Wall hanging 4.61 4.20 2.20 1.10 1.24 0.06Gift articles 21.63 9.27 11.10 4.80 17.62 8.01Decorative fabrics 22.91 21.90 16.80 17.20 21.47 1.61Others 62.84 150.63 6.80 23.7 17.73 0.07Total JDPs 3125.92 2564.80 2985.50 2945.40 2308.28 379.55Total jute goods export 11862.40 10551.60 11435.7 12161.60 8594.64 3014.24% share of JDP exportto jute goods export 26 % 24% 26% 28% 27% 13%Source: NJB. Bulletin85