The Confederation of Indian Small Tea Growers Association (CISTA) urged Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal to prevent the import of low-q...

The United Planters Association of South India (UPASI) has urged the government to immediately intervene and take appropriate steps to cont...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her budget speech on Tuesday had said the Centre will promote Kisan drones to help farmers assess cr...

11 per cent total import duty existing on cotton has been the reason for the cartelisation of players to increase the domestic cotton price...

Prices over the last decade had increased at a compounded annual growth rate of four per cent, while input costs had risen by 9-15 per cent.

India is one of the leading producers of tea with 23% share in global production. Tea plantation has always been a labour intensive profess...

"This is the first time we lost the entire second flush," said AN Singh, managing director of Goodricke Group, a Kolkatabased producer with...

In order to regulate the usage of pesticides in tea, Tea Board of India has recently enforced a comprehensive guideline for safe usage of P...

With India largest tea growing state of Assam witnessing erratic weather condition this year, production in Assam in 2015 is expected to pl...

As per the plan, a matrix will be developed to calculate the quantum of loss that is usually borne by the tea estates on account of damage ...

In recent years, the shortage of labour in tea estates had also thrown up a challenge to meet targets in production, thereby necessitating ...

ITB has issued a directive to all factories stating not to buy green leaf from any garden not complying with PPC effective from 1st Septemb...

The NGO said 59% of the samples had the residue of at least one pesticide active ingredient above the maximum level set by the European Uni...

But tea baron Ashok Lohia sees hope in global markets as recession comes to end.

Tea experts claim that people are returning to the organic and healthy varieties of tea as is the case with other food items these days.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Saturday requested the Centre to fix the minimum price at a very reasonable level for green tea ...

The Planning Commission’s sub-group on the plantation sector has mooted the putting in place of a weather-linked insurance scheme to protec...