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Tea Mosquito Bug Crisis: Planters Association urges immediate government interventionThe United Planters Association of South India (UPASI) has urged the government to immediately intervene and take appropriate steps to cont...- Frost covers tourist destination Munnar in Kerala as temperatures drop below zeroLocal business and hotel owners are enthusiastic about the tourist inflow which has spiked over the last few days.
- Plantation sector in deep crisis: UpasiThe production of natural rubber in India has shown progressive decline primarily due to un-remunerative prices. Low prices have been drivi...
- South India tea production may be down by 25 million kg this yearKDHP too has suffered heavy damage in its tea plantations in Munnar. It is expecting 50% loss in August alone.
- Rains put a bug in South India's tea cupHeavy rains in Kerala and parts of Tamil Nadu have led to increased pest attacks.
- Rains just can't end plantation growers' painThe heat has affected rubber crops too. "As per our estimates, about 10 pc of tea and 15 pc of rubber have been destroyed in the extended d...
- Rs 500 daily wage for Kerala tea workers not feasible: UpasiUpasi 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...
- United Planters’ Association of Southern India denounces strike tactics of tea workers in KeralaUpasi president Vijayan Rajes said the wages added with statutory and other benefits work out to Rs 410.72 per day.
- Export obligation period for rubber importers reducedThe United Planters Association of Southern India (UPASI) said that the government's decision would help stabilise sagging domestic prices.
- Indian planters demand scraping of several levies imposed on tea plantationsAssociation wants some sops from govt like scrapping of plantation tax of Rs 700 per hectare & land tax of Rs 500 per hectare to tide over ...
- Association seeks immediate reconstitution of Tea boardA meeting of stakeholders in the tea industry today urged the Centre to immediately reconstitute the Tea Board and appoint a full time Chai...
- Crash in prices hit tea planters, small growers in Southern India affectedAround 70,000 small and marginal tea growers with a land holding of about 49,000 hectares in the South depend wholly on tea for livelihood.
- Upasi expresses concern at the government action against Harrisons MalayalamUpasi feels, certain developments in Kerala targeting plantations would jeopardize the existence of many estates.
- Planters wary over labour shortage, rising costAcute labour shortage, increasing social cost have dampened the spirits of the planters.
- Plantation industry concerned over labour shortage, rising costAcute labour shortage, increasing social cost and the future implications of ASEAN free trade agreement have dampened the spirits of the pl...
- Planters prefer machines as labour pains loomFaced with problems of labour shortage and declining productivity, tea plantations may take to mechanisation in a big way.
- Plantation sector wants govt to fix minimum wagesPlanters have urged the Centre to intervene in fixing minimum wages in the plantation sector.
- Plantations play integral role in South's economyAccording to the United Planters' Association of South India plantation in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka together account for almost a quarter o...
- Scheme to raise orthodox tea output on cardsThe Centre would implement a 5-year plan to increase the orthodox tea production in the country from 80 million tones to 120 million tones.
- Upasi seeks removal of obsolete lawsThe president of the Upasi has called for structural changes by way of removing legislation which, he claimed, was doing the opposite of wh...
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