Tea Board, FAO launch project for organic tea
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20/09/2008
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Hindu (New Delhi)
GOING ORGANIC: Basudeb Banerjee (right), Chairman, Tea Board of India, shaking hands with Kaison Chang, Secretary, FAO IGG on Tea, at a press conference in Kolkata on Friday. Anne Boor (left), Project Director, INFOAM, and Nianjun Schen, Assistant Project Manager-Common Fund for Commodities, look on.
KOLKATA: The Intergovernmental Group (IGG) of the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization has cautioned against any overreaction to the current high prices ruling in the tea industry. Kaison Chang, Secretary, IGG, FAO, said that there was turnaround in the international tea market with steady rise in consumption.