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 …
Workers leave tea gardens for better NREGA wages More than 5,000 tea garden workers in Tripura have switched jobs in the past six months. They have found a better option in the works under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega), 2005, leaving a tea industry in crisis in their …
Alipurduar, Feb. 20: The absence of rain during this winter has posed a threat to the tea industry in the Dooars. Tea bushes have dried up because of scanty rainfall and insects have damaged the bushes. Experts apprehend that the first flush will not be available and second may be …
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 …
Among developing countries, one can identify both proponents and opponents of extending the use of geographical indications (GIs) beyond wines and spirits. Such an extension is currently being discussed under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of the World Trade Organization. While labeling is mostly based …
KOLKATA: A national committee on pesticide levels (known as minimum residue level (MRL)) in tea has been constituted under the aegis of the Tea Board. This body is expected to be a nodal agency in this matter and will help formulate a national policy on MRL which often proves to …
Agartala, Sept 30: Tea gardens in Tripura are facing shortage of labourers following the expansion of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) scheme in all four districts of the State. A Tea Association of India (TAI) report revealed that about 40-42 per cent workers had deserted tea estates and …
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) …
Ambootia tea garden (Kurseong), Sept. 18: A UN body will partially fund three pilot projects worth $4 million in India for creating a scientific system for cultivation of organic black tea. Till date, organic tea plantation in India is based on a trial and error method, without any set procedures. …
Notwithstanding the Assam Tea Corporation (ATC)-run tea gardens' accumulated loss of Rs 200 crore since 2000 till 2006-07, the State Government was keen to revive the 15 ailing tea gardens, and a revival roadmap has already been drawn. Revealing this before the State Assembly while replying to a call attention …
The Tea Research Association has maintained that the reported loss of tea crop this year cannot be attributed to the infestation by Helopeltis (commonly referred to as the tea mosquito bug) alone. Unfavourable weather conditions have played a part, too, in the production loss, said TRA director Dr Mridul Hazarika …
The Tea Board of India has decided to extend financial help in the form of subsidies to self-help groups (SHG) of small growers to encourage the formation of these clusters. The highest ceiling of such assistance has been fixed at Rs 5 lakh for each SHG, which must have at …
At a time when the condition of tea industry in Assam started improving after going through a slump for years, wrong policies of the Government may seriously affect the industry during the peak plucking season. Tea Industry sources told The Assam Tribune that the prices of tea in the Guwahati …
An experiment was carried out at Maud Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam following the ancient techniques of controlling pests based on information given in Surapala's Vrikshayurveda and Chakrapani Mishra's Vishvavallabha.
Deckiajuli Tea Estate in Assam, India has been grappling with the issue of what should be considered as a ideal crop management system for tea plantation. The planters felt that the use of chemicals was not giving satisfactory results and they decided to grow tea organically. To achieve these objectives, …
