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 …
The prolonged drought in Sri Lanka has affected the tea cultivation and reduced the tea production by about 50 percent ,the industry sources say. Sri Lanka Tea Board says that the drought has affected tea plants in the plantations in the hill country as well as in the low country. …
The Madurai bench of Madras high court was shocked to hear that 2,7 trees of various species were axed in High Wavy Mountains (Megamalai) in Theni district by a private firm named Dream View Coffee And Tea Estate Private Ltd. A public interest litigation (PIL) in this regard had come …
Tea Board is to shortly come out with a notification on regulations in regard to use of pesticides and plant protection chemicals in tea crops. “We’re introducing pesticide code developed by Tea Research Association for North India teas and by UPASI for the South Indian varieties as part of the …
Plantation crops are high value commercial crops with greater economic importance and play a vital role in Indian economy. The major plantation crops include coconut, cashew nut, coffee, tea and rubber. Exports of tea, coffee and rubber are contributing 15 percent to the total agricultural export earnings. It is the …
The state-run Soil Resource Development Institute (SRDI) has claimed that there has been about 30.6 per cent fall in the tea cultivation area in the country over the last ten years. The tea growers have, however, contradicted the finding saying that it has rather expanded. The latest research by SRDI …
Climate change is threatening to impact the bottomline of the organised tea industry in India, with unprecedented high temperatures in Assam and excessive rainfall in Darjeeling impacting the prized crop. Addressing the media here on Monday, A N Singh, Chairman of the Indian Tea Association, said that due to erratic …
New Delhi: Most people think of leopards as predators that live in forests except for a few that occasionally stray into human settlements. Breaking that myth, a new study has found that a large number of these big cats may be residing in human habitats, quietly sharing space with people …
Itanagar: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has prepared a Focus Paper for Arunachal Pradesh envisaging a credit outlay of Rs 314.56 crore for ‘priority sector’ during the financial year 2013–14. The paper which was released here yesterday by chief secretary H K Paliwal, was prepared with …
Occupational Health Hazards refer to the potential risks to health and safety of workers in their workplaces. Tea garden workers are susceptible to a number of hazards in their workplaces due to physical, biological, mechanical, chemical and psychosocial factors. The present paper tries to examine the occupational health hazards faced …
The GI craze in India is as inexplicable as the ways in which the Registry grants it People of Hoovina Hadagali (population: 27,958), the taluka headquarters of Bellary district of Karnataka, are inordinately proud of their variety of mallige (jasmine). So are the growers from Udipi and Mysore, all of …
Among connoisseurs, few teas surpass a good Darjeeling. The smooth and mellow taste commands a premium price, and the name itself evokes a bygone era when the British first introduced Chinese tea plants here in the Indian foothills of the Himalayas. To Anil K Jha, the superintendent of the Sungma …
Jorhat, Nov. 21: The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, is planning to apply shockwave technology to the tea industry, which scientists feel could bring about a revolution. The institute is likely to work jointly with tea scientists to apply the technology soon. “The application of shockwave technology could cut …
New Delhi The government on Thursday notified unified packaging standards for 19 FMCG products which prohibit companies from selling products in irregular sizes. According to a food and consumer affairs ministry notification, about 19 products, including baby food, biscuits, bread, cereals, pulses, coffee, tea, edible oil, milk power, flour, salt …
The Madras High Court has directed the Union government to fix the minimum price for green tea leaf payable to small tea growers within six weeks. It also directed the government to do such exercise by calling for a realistic report on the problem faced by the small tea growers …
Jorhat, Oct. 17: Inclement weather and a resultant increase in pest attacks have brought tea production in Upper Assam down by more than 11 per cent till September. Talking to The Telegraph today, a scientist at Tocklai Experimental Station said, “Continuous rain and less sunshine hours, resulting in a fall …
Bhutan has decided to crack down on illegal mining of dolomite along the Indo-Bhutan border in an attempt to curb pollution of groundwater in the foothills of Eastern Himalayas that has affected productivity of the tea gardens of Dooars in West Bengal. The 150-odd gardens in the region produce nearly …
All tea factories in Assam which are situated within ‘No Development Zones’ (NDZ) as well as in the range of 500 metres from the coordinates of NDZs will soon have to go green or else will face closures. The Pollution Control Board of Assam (PCBA) has asked these factories to …
The Union commerce ministry has set up a directorate exclusively to look after the welfare of small tea growers. The directorate, approved by the Planning Commission, will soon start functioning under the aegis of the Tea Board. “This is a very important imperative for the welfare of small tea growers. …
DIBRUGARH, Sept 27 – Many tea gardens in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts are reeling under a severe shortage of piped natural gas, and garden managers are finding it difficult to overcome the crisis. The worst-affected tea gardens include Lepetkata. Borborooah, Jamirah (all in the vicinity of DibruwArh) and those in …
To secure better working conditions for plantation workers, the Tea Board has approved a proposal to provide subsidies for drinking water schemes and rainwater harvesting projects. At its 220th board meeting held here on Tuesday, the Board, which functions under the Union Ministry of Commerce, granted 40 per cent subsidy …
