Small tea growers write to Minister; seek fair price, crop insurance

[International Tea Day - Media Clipping]

Seeking a fair price for their produce and crop insurance, scores of registered small tea grower societies in Assam and other tea-growing States have written to Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Highlighting their contribution to employment generation and exports on the ocassion of the 12th International Tea Day on December 15, the letter written by these societies, located in Tinsukhia, Nagaon, Karbi Anglong, Golaghat, Sonitpur, Udalguri, and other States, also demanded “participatory enforcement of price sharing formula, better price for quality of leaf supplied, and making certified organic manure and pesticides available”.