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Indian Tea Board to propose Tea Act amendments

04 Feb 2015 Evaluate

The Indian Tea Board is planning to propose amendments to the Tea Act 1953 for ratifying and eliminating some archaic laws while regularising some others. This proposed amendment is expected to boost the development of the tea sector apart from promoting research on Indian tea varieties. There are several reasons for the amendments. A case for instance, would be that the International Tea Agreement expired in 1956 under which there was a quota for exports, but with the World Trade Organization norms it was now irrelevant.

Among the more significant additions to the Act is the definition of ‘small tea grower’. In tandem with the Land Ceiling Act in West Bengal and Assam, the Tea Board has proposed to define small tea grower as a person owning less than 25 acres of tea estate in his name. The Tea Board has justified that it is important to include the definition as many small growers were foraying into tea plantation.

Small growers have been gaining ground over the past few years. In 2011, the board had to revise production figures to include production by small tea growers and the figure jumped to more than a billion kg, from the earlier 988 million kg.

Tea Board would be entrusted with the role of protecting the intellectual property rights of tea of Indian origin within India and abroad. The protection would be by way of registering the Indian tea in accordance with the procedures laid under the prevailing laws and instituting legal action against infringement. The industry is unsure as to when the amendments, which have been in the works for the past many years, would actually be passed.

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