Government is in an advanced stage of considering a proposal to increase the cost of replanting in coffee estates and subsidy limits and al...

Tea Board generally gives 25% subsidy on schemes that are aimed at increasing the quality and productivity of tea bushes.

The package would be released over 5 yrs with the govt contributing 75% and the rest coming from the private sector.

Tea industry has demanded to increase the rate of subsidy under the Special Purpose Tea Fund (SPTF) from the existing 25% to 40%.

With domestic consumption of quality tea growing at an annual rate of 3%, the Indian tea industry is going in for a massive replantation of...

The replantation and rejuvenation of country’s ageing tea bushes under the SPTF scheme has gathered momentum as a consortium of 4 banks led...

The government on Monday said it has provided nearly Rs 49 crore subsidy till November 2009 under the special purpose tea fund for redevelo...

To tide over the huge replanting cost in the rubber plantation sector, the large estates including corparates have approached the Rubber Bo...

Tea entrepreneurs from Darjeeling have called for higher rate of assistance under the Special Purpose Tea Fund (SPTF).

The government has approved an outlay of Rs 1,146.13 crore for rejuvenation and promotion of tea, coffee, spices and rubber crops during th...

The government has set apart over Rs 413 crore for the replanting and new planting of rubber in the country during the 11th-plan period.

The Union commerce ministry has sanctioned a loan of Rs 15.15 crore for 85 tea estates in the country from the Rs 4,700 crore special purpo...

The commerce ministry’s plan to undertake replantation and rejuvenation of cash crops such as rubber, pepper and coconut is yet to see the ...

Union Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh launches the Special Purpose Tea Fund (SPTF) scheme for replantation and rejuvenation of...

The Rubber Board has submitted a plan to the commerce ministry for integrated development of the rubber economy. The proposal, which envisa...

Encouraged by a central package of Rs 400-crore for the rejuvenation of black pepper plantation and boosting its export, the regional offic...

Rubber Board, which is ready to spend nearly Rs 10 crore for new plantation and re-plantation in the current year, has asked small growers ...