Ooty: Centre urged to bail out crisis-ridden plantations
5 years, 5 months ago

Ooty: Centre urged to bail out crisis-ridden plantations

Deccan Chronicle  

OOTY: As issues like non-remunerative price and high cost of production in the plantation industry have begun to trouble it, the United Planters Association of South India pleaded with the Centre to bail out the plantation industry from the present crisis. Wages in south India are very high compared to other plantation states and prices have no co-relation with the cost of production. While the prices of other commodities have increased manifold over the past two decades, the price of tea increased only by 2.46 times, coffee arabica 1.92, coffee robusta 1.58 and rubber 2.47 times. Tea workers’ wages, during the last two decades has increased 7.69 times, coffee 9.72 times and rubber 8.2 times.

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UPASI urges Centre to bail out plantation industry
5 years, 1 month ago

UPASI urges Centre to bail out plantation industry

Deccan Chronicle  

Coonoor: The United Planters’ Association of South India, headquartered here has appealed to the Centre to bail out the plantation industry from the present financial crisis which the industry is facing now, due to many factors affecting the plantation sector. UPASI president, AL RM Nagappan, said that the plantations are going through a quite stressful period as they face agrarian …

As crisis grips plantation, planters seek minimum support price for coffee, tea
5 years, 4 months ago

As crisis grips plantation, planters seek minimum support price for coffee, tea

Deccan Chronicle  

CHENNAI: As a plethora of issues plague them, the beleaguered planters have urged the Centre to bring commodities such as tea, coffee and rubber under the ambit of minimum support price to bail them out of the prevailing crisis. In TN, which is mainly Arabica coffee producing region, the post monsoon production estimate of 2018-19 was placed at 17,765 MT, …

Budget ignoring plantation sector is shocking: UPASI
5 years, 6 months ago

Budget ignoring plantation sector is shocking: UPASI

Deccan Chronicle  

Ooty: A E Joseph, president of the United Planters’ Association of South India, said that that the plantation industry feels neglected in the union budget 2019-20 as there was nothing specific to help the tea, coffee, rubber and spices sectors which are in severe crisis. Responding to the Union budget 2019-20, he said the main issues highlighted by UPASI in …

Wage struggle stirs Sri Lanka’s tea sector
5 years, 11 months ago

Wage struggle stirs Sri Lanka’s tea sector

The Hindu  

‘LKR 700 it is,’ said Sri Lanka’s plantation companies earlier this week, fixing tea estate workers’ new basic daily wage. The issue of wages paid to the tens of thousands of workers employed in Sri Lanka’s famed tea estates has been a recurrent one in the sector that is known for the historic exploitation of its tea-pluckers, most of whom …

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