Small sector's Bengal tea share up

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The small tea sector has for the first time contributed to more than 50 per cent of the production in Bengal last year. "There was a change in the production share of big gardens and small growers or bought leaf factories in the tea sector in the state. In 2017, 51 per cent of the total yield has come from the small cultivators, which was only five per cent in the nineties," said P. Mudgal, the chairman of the north Bengal branch of Tea Association of India.