Tea Board Chooses Quality over Quantity; Orders Closure of Factories in December

This article is published by The Northeast Today on Sept. 19, 2020. Read the original article here.

NORTHEAST | SEPT 19, 2020:

The Tea Board exercising the Tea Marketing Control Order has directed all factories to stop the manufacture of the beverage starting early December to stop production of inferior quality of teas.

The order will be mandatory for all the gardens in Darjeeling, Sikkim, Assam, Dooars and Terai regions of North Bengal, Tea Board sources said.

For Assam, the last date for closure of the factories has been fixed on December 12, while for Sikkim the date is December 7. It is December 21 for Dooars and the Terai region.

Tea Board chairman P K Bezbaruah said, "I am happy that the Tea Board is taking steps to eliminate some of the bad teas from the system. I suggest that they should also inspect the factories shortly after closure to check whether any product is lying there".

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If the Tea Board finds any produce in the factories after the closure, it should be analysed and if it is found to be not up to the mark, the product should be categorised as tea waste.

Rudra Chatterjee, MD of Luxmi Tea, said that the beverage is hardly produced in north India in December and most of the estates prune the tea bushes then.

PTI

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