Affidavit filed by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board in the matter of Bharat Prakash Rai Vs State of West Bengal dated December 16, 2022. The matter related to felling of trees in a tea estate, Darjeeling. In order to control soil erosion and stabilize landslides, land slip as well …
INDORE: Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) on Saturday destroyed one tonne tea after it was declared unfit for human consumption. Tea samples were declared unfit for human consumption and district court ordered to destroy them. Civic body also recovered fine from the tea shop. Special judicial magistrate D K Singh ordered …
Agartala, 19 Sept: The Rubber Board has begun trial cultivation of rubber with tea in West Bengal to change the perception that rubber is harmful to environment and other crops cannot be grown in rubber gardens. And if the experiment turns successful, inter-cropping would be extended to other parts of …
DIBRUGARH, Sept 14 – The small tea growers are likely to suffer this year around again with bought leaf tea factory owners signalling for shutdown of factories due to erratic Administered Price Mechanism (APM) natural gas supply to its factories by Assam Gas Company Limited since July. “ Gas supply …
Jorhat, Sept. 12: The National Green Tribunal’s recent order, which penalised the state government for failing to curb violations of the no-development zone around Kaziranga National Park, has caused concern within the tea industry because the order has also come down heavily on 25 factories falling within the area. On …
Shillong: In a boost to tea production in Meghalaya, three of its plantations and processing units have been certified “organic” by a certified agency of the government of India, official sources said on Monday. The certification for processing and plantation have been given to Urlong Tea factory in East Khasi …
DIBRUGARH, Aug 29 – The State tea industry is set for another revolution with the creation of a separate Small Tea Growers’ Development Directorate in the tea-growing district here by October next, establishment of call centres and immediate issuance of authorisation to Self-Help Groups for setting up tea factories. Chairman …
London: Scientists have discovered that extracts from a plant, found in arid regions of India and Pakistan can kill cancerous cells and produces no harmful side-effects associated with chemotherapy. Tea from the plant known asVirgin’s Mantle is already drunk by women in rural Pakistan who have breast cancer, the Daily …
There’s some good news for the Indian tea industry which has been demanding that tea be declared the ‘national drink’ of India. A parliamentary standing committee on commerce, which was constituted on August 31, 2011, and submitted its report on August 9, 2012, has recommended that the beverage be given …
Guwahati, July 9: The Tea Board of India has decided to institute awards to encourage small tea growers of the region to grow and manufacture good quality tea. The awards will be instituted on the lines of those prevalent in South India to encourage small tea growers and manufacturers there …
KOLKATA, 3 JULY: Plots belonging to the tribals in north Bengal have been occupied by non-tribals but the state backward classes welfare department is unable to restore them because of legal complications coming in the way. According to an official of the department, land in Jalpaiguri and Malda and few …
Guwahati, June 27: The Tea Board of India is planning big for small tea growers of the state. “The plan is to make the small tea growers’ sector an organised one, for which big steps have to be taken,” Dinesh Sarma, vice-chairman of the board said at a news conference …
While the power scenario in Assam remains one of the worst in the country, the state’s Rs 2000-crore tea industry has been the worst sufferer in the absence of any other major power-intensive industrial activity. “The tea industry is in deep crisis because of the state’s poor power situation. Believe …
Non-supply of gas by the Assam Gas Company Ltd (AGCL), following an agitational programme by an organisation blocking Oil India Ltd (OIL) pipelines, has hit production in the tea factories located in the five districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar, Jorhat and Golaghat. It is stated that production in most of …
The growing of tea invariably replaces biodiversity-rich tropical forests with a beautiful, but single species (monoculture). Soil erosion, competition for water, pollution from fertilizers and the requirement of firewood to fuel tea driers, are some of the main environmental concerns that accompany commercial tea cultivation. By following the Sustainable Agriculture …
Major energy savings in the steel re-rolling sector and in the small tea processing enterprise, initiated by the UNDP, has seen a substantive increase in energy efficiency in these industries. UNDP, India, country director Caitlin Wiesen, told this newspaper, “Intervention in the steel re-rolling industry has seen efficiency levels go …
The UK consumes an astonishing 165 million cups of tea every day, but most of the teabags that go to making the nation's favourite hot drink still end up unnecessarily in landfill. Now manufacturing giant Unilever has teamed up with two Essex councils, Brentwood and Chelmsford, together with Wrap the …
With the Union commerce ministry turning down the demand for declaring tea the national drink, tea associations will seek Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention in this regard. Minister of State for Commerce Jyotiraditya Scindia told the Rajya Sabha that a proposal to declare tea the national drink was examined during …
New Delhi: It’s the most common drink in the country after water. So what added benefits can a ‘national drink’ status bring to tea, especially since it is unlikely to be accompanied with special incentives or tax breaks? Plenty, say tea industry insiders and experts, claiming there is much more …
GUWAHATI, April 26 – The declaration of tea as the National Drink of India is long overdue as no other drink can come even closer to tea in the country, observed the chairman of the Tea Board, MGVK Bhanu. He also said that the declaration of tea as the National …
India is the largest tea-producing country in the world and contributes 33% of the global tea production. Much of this tea comes from the biodiversity hotspots in the northeastern regions and the Western Ghats. Due to market fluctuations, increasing costs of production and lease expiry, many coffee, tea and cardamom …
