Cheer runneth over

  • 11/01/2009

  • Business India (Mumbai)

For the tea industry, the wheel of fortune could be turning up, and this becomes a matter of great importance to the entire North east as well as southern India Consider this: it took the British-dominated organised plantation industry all of a century-and-half, since tea started being grown in Assam in the 1840s, to reach the annual production level of 450 mil