Budget 2016: Tea industry feels let down by centre
Deccan ChronicleOoty: The Union budget 2016-17 has failed to bring cheers to the tea growers and has turned out to be a disappointment to the tea sector with no announcement on fixing of minimum support price for green tea leaf and also no other SOPs to recover the struggling tea industry in the Nilgiris. Stating that the tea growers’ expectations and hopes were high ahead of the budget and Mr Arun Jaitley only disappointed and rejected the tea sector, Mr A. Natraj, vice-president of the Nilgiris small tea growers and bought leaf tea manufacturers association, said that the government knew well how the tea industry is struggling and their expectations to tide over the crisis and to recover from it. Unfortunately there is lack of support in the budget to revive the ailing tea industry,” he said. Meanwhile, Mr.Manjai V. Mohan, President of the Nilgiris Tea Cultivators Associations Federation, said that the expectations of Small Tea Growers, who form the bulk of the farming community in Nilgiris, have been belied.
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