Small growers edging out big players: Tea body
The Hindu
Welfare responsibilities making organised sector’s output costlier, Tea Association of India says
Small tea growers are threatening to push estates in the organised sector out of the competition because they are not burdened with welfare responsibilities, the Tea Association of India (TAI) has said.
In its paper “Sustainability of tea industry in India”, the TAI said the small tea growers or STGs are no longer small or a minority as they produce more than 50% of India’s green leaf output.
An STG is a person who cultivates tea in an area up to 25 acres. There are more than 2 lakh STGs in Assam and West Bengal.

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