Small tea-growers receives' assistance from Tea Board

02 Jun 2011 Evaluate

The Tea Board has decided to assist a group from West Bengal in setting up the country's first tea processing unit by small tea-growers. This is the Tea Board’s initiative to promote small tea-growers of India.

A self-help group of Assam by the name ‘The Panbari Small Tea-Growers Society’ formed a few years ago in Panbari village has decided to go ahead with an idea of setting up tea processing factory in the village. The society has acquired two hectares of land and pooled an amount of Rs 65 lakh for the same. The Tea Board is assisting these growers and one of the nationalized banks has decided to provide loans.

The Tea Board confirmed that the proposal has been pending for a long time and due to initiative by Panbari tea-growers it is now being implemented. The small tea growers in the tea growing regions of north India have become a force to reckon with.

A recent survey by the Assam government has put the number of small tea growers at around 68,465 in 14 districts. Assam produces nearly 55% of India's total tea production of 980 million kg. The survey has been funded by the Assam government and Tea Board. Interestingly, insurgency-infested areas of upper Assam are propelling the growth. Major concentration of the small growers is in five upper Assam districts, which accounts for 94% of small growers in 14 districts of the Brahmaputra valley. The small growers now produce nearly 100 million kg of tea annually, which is largely of CTC variety.

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