Dibrugarh: The most important problem being confronted by the Assam Tea Business is the stagnancy in tea costs, excessive value of manufacturing and low productiveness, mentioned Bharatiya Chah Parishad (BCP) chairman Nalin Khemani on Thursday.
Talking on the BCP AGM in Dibrugarh, Khemani mentioned, “If there may be any answer to this drawback that’s to enhance the competitiveness of the trade when it comes to productiveness. Within the liberalized regime of world commerce, paramount significance needs to be given to the advertising and marketing of tea. The disaster within the tea trade has an enormous damaging impression on the household lifetime of the plantation employees and all others related to the Business.”
“A problem that considerations me is the essential protection the Assam tea trade has acquired in quite a few articles. These articles introduced the trade’s execution of its social commitments in a really poor mild. Whereas presenting a viewpoint, such articles should undertake a extra panoramic view of actuality,” he mentioned
“With over 60% of the entire price range of a Tea Firm allotted to wages, this ought to be a major concern of the Business going ahead. We have to equip our workforce with the right processes, coaching, know-how and instruments for this output to rise,” mentioned the Chairman of BCP.
He mentioned, “The federal government of India has initiated the Talent India motion to enhance productiveness. Productiveness in plantations needs to be elevated by replantation of latest varieties, and scientific and mechanized harvesting.
“Assam produces 60% of its yearly manufacturing in 4 months from July to September. Throughout these 4 months Business faces an enormous employee scarcity leading to poor high quality of the harvest. The time has come we must always implement mechanized harvesting to enhance the productiveness of the Assam Tea Business.”
“The Tea Business has been the spine of the agricultural financial system in Assam for many years and the livelihood of over one million employees and a number of other lakh of small tea growers of the state is determined by the Tea trade,” he mentioned.
