This is no storm in a tea cup
6 years ago

This is no storm in a tea cup

Deccan Chronicle  

Ooty: Ahead of the April 18 Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu, it is issues related to dismally low tea prices for Green Tea Leaf and lack of industrial growth that appear to be the dominant ones for political parties to crack in Nilgiris district. The Nilgiris constituency is unique as three Assembly segments from Nilgiris and three assembly segments in neighboring districts in the plains constitute the Nilgiris Lok Sabha seat, As far as the hill segments are concerned, it is certainly the tea issue that is a dominating factor. While the made tea is auctioned by the factories between Rs100 and Rs 200 per kg in the market, the STG gets around Rs 10 per kg of GTL. Though the procurement price for GTL was good till 1999, things began to change amid widespread unrest amongst the STGs’ as tea price hit a new low of around `10 per kg of GTL.

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Panel formed to recommend fair price for green tea leaves in Nilgiris
1 month, 1 week ago

Panel formed to recommend fair price for green tea leaves in Nilgiris

The Hindu  

The Nilgiris district administration has constituted a committee to recommend the fixing of a fair price for green tea leaves in the district. The action follows complaints from small tea growers that the minimum fixed price for tea provided by tea factories for green, unprocessed tea leaves was inadequate due to rising production costs. The committee is to take into …

An aged tea for the new year
2 years, 2 months ago

An aged tea for the new year

Live Mint  

There’s a small but growing community of tea farmers in the Nilgiris that has been experimenting successfully with speciality tea. The growers realised that if they could learn to make speciality tea, they could keep a greater share of profits and focus on quality. One of the speciality tea pioneers in the group is Prabhu Nanjan, who runs Vijayalakshmi Farms. …

How a female leader changed Nilgiris tea
3 years, 11 months ago

How a female leader changed Nilgiris tea

Live Mint  

If you have ever been to Coonoor, it’s likely that you would have stopped at Bedford for a meal or to shop, or because it’s on the way to everywhere else…. The Bedford tea is part of a range of teas by INDCOSERVE, a cooperative federation of Small Tea Growers and Bought Leaf Factories in the Nilgiris that was started …

How a female leader changed Nilgiris tea
3 years, 11 months ago

How a female leader changed Nilgiris tea

Live Mint  

If you have ever been to Coonoor, it’s likely that you would have stopped at Bedford for a meal or to shop, or because it’s on the way to everywhere else…. The Bedford tea is part of a range of teas by INDCOSERVE, a cooperative federation of Small Tea Growers and Bought Leaf Factories in the Nilgiris that was started …

Tea Board holds meeting with small growers
5 years, 4 months ago

Tea Board holds meeting with small growers

Deccan Chronicle  

OOTY: The Tea Board of India conducted an interaction meet with progressive small tea growers at Coonoor near here on Thursday. Tea Board is conducting various training programme/demonstration to improve the quality of green tea leafin the STG sector so as to facilitate the tea growers to fetch better price for GTL which they produce. This meeting with the stakeholders …

Ooty: Cup to lip, the sip of tea is at risk
5 years, 9 months ago

Ooty: Cup to lip, the sip of tea is at risk

Deccan Chronicle  

OOTY: Nilgiri tea is in trouble. In December last, an unlicensed tea factory was found and sealed near Gudalur, in March, a consignment of adulterants in a truck proceeding to Kotagiri was seized by officials at the checkpost in Kunjapannai near Kotagiri, and in the last week of May, a consignment of adulterants taken in a truck was also seized …

Tea adulteration: Ryots for tough action on offenders
5 years, 10 months ago

Tea adulteration: Ryots for tough action on offenders

Deccan Chronicle  

Ooty: Seizure of adulterants, meant for mixing in made tea, on the Nilgiris border and the delay in fixing the offenders has caused unrest amongst the farming community here as the farmers association in the hills want transparent investigation into this incident and also want the district administration to invoke the Goondas Act against the offenders. Officials from the Tea …

Ooty: Small tea growers seek special health, education package
6 years, 7 months ago

Ooty: Small tea growers seek special health, education package

Deccan Chronicle  

OOTY: Small tea growers in the Nilgiris want the Tea Board to evolve a mechanism for health care and educational assistance exclusively for STGs, besides taking steps to fix the procurement price for black tea in auction centres. Thumboor I. Bhojan, president of the ‘Hill District Small Growers Welfare Association ’, said that in the recent meet of his association …

Subsidy should go to all small tea growers: Edappadi K.Palaniswami
7 years, 2 months ago

Subsidy should go to all small tea growers: Edappadi K.Palaniswami

Deccan Chronicle  

Ooty: The ‘small tea growers ’ here in the hills have urged that the tea subsidy announced by the Chief minister Edappadi K.PalaniswamI be extended to all the STG families who supply green tea leaf to private tea factories, as the present order on subsidy is confined only to those STG who are attached to cooperative tea factories. Stating that …

Brexit drives up cost of tea by up to 50 per cent
8 years, 5 months ago

Brexit drives up cost of tea by up to 50 per cent

The Independent  

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Budget 2016: Tea industry feels let down by centre
9 years ago

Budget 2016: Tea industry feels let down by centre

Deccan Chronicle  

Ooty: 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 …

Ooty: Small tea growers urge Centre to fix MSP
9 years, 1 month ago

Ooty: Small tea growers urge Centre to fix MSP

Deccan Chronicle  

OOTY: While the union budget is on the anvil, the small tea growers in the hills have urged the Centre to take a decision to fix minimum support price for the green tea leaf. Stating that STG, who constitute for the bulk of the farming community in the hills had been suffering for many years with fluctuations in the tea …

Storm in tea country
24 years, 7 months ago

Storm in tea country

The Hindu  

The small tea growers of the Nilgiris, who have borne the brunt of the prolonged downturn in leaf prices, launch a strong agitation demanding a reasonable price for their produce. Vikram Kapur, chief regional executive of the Tea Board, explains that prior to 1998 the strong rouble enabled Russian importers to "pay a good price for Indian tea". Paliwal reckons …

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