This will help raise overall transaction of industry; planters seek policy & dedicated department under industries ministry.

The association chairman Thomas Jacob said the crop production has come down by 30 per cent in tea, 14 per cent in rubber, 60 per cent in c...

At present, the farmers are receiving more than 90% of the price as their farm gate price.

Producers have voiced concern at the piling up of tea due to the boycott of pan India auction by the tea buyers at a time when industry is ...

In Nagrakata constituency in Bengal's tea-growing Jalpaiguri district candidates of all major parties share a legacy - they are from the te...

With the prices of rubber and tea two main crops of the state continuing to keep low, the plantation sector has now agreed that 50 per cent...

Upasi has made it clear that the demand for a daily basic wage of Rs 500 by the tea plantation workers of Kerala is not feasible given pres...

In the backdrop of agitation by women plantation workers in Kerala, the National Commission for Women today said it will initiate research ...

The Association of Planters of Kerala has requested the state government to remove anomalies in the land laws to facilitate flexibility in ...

The Association of Planters of Kerala (APK) said the tea industry in the state is going through one of the worst crisis faced in the past 1...

The purchase tax exemption given to all grades of rubber by the Kerala govt has squeezed the income of growers instead of benefitting them.

Prices of tea & rubber have been dropping, threatening to push the sectors back to 1999-2006 crisis situation, said APK chairman Gilbert D'...

The plantation industry in Kerala has voiced its concern at the rash of problems that threaten its survival and has urged the govt to look ...

Around three lakh workers in 300 tea gardens of North Bengal and Doars area today observed a one-day's token strike demanding renewal of th...

About 40 varieties of fish, cashew kernels and salted and roasted cashew are among the products which should be included in the negative li...

The plantation sector, which employs five million people, has not benefitted from the economic boom and is "struggling for its survival", a...

The president of the Upasi has called for structural changes by way of removing legislation which, he claimed, was doing the opposite of wh...