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How a female leader changed Nilgiris tea

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Supriya Sahu turned things around by improving quality and providing better prices for farmers. Picture Courtesy: Supriya Sahu with the INDCO-Tea ‘vandi’ in the Nilgiris. If you have ever been to Coonoor, it’s likely that you would have stopped at Bedford for a meal or to shop, or because it’s on the way to everywhere […]

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Green tea push can lift India’s exports: Report

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Read more at:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/82417613.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst Green tea push can lift India’s exports: Report Read more at:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/82417613.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst Kolkata: If India ramps up its green tea production, it will be able to boost its exports kitty and tap the US market at a cheaper cost, says a research report by Drip Capital which was exclusively shared with ToI. Only 2% of India’s tea exports comprise green […]

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Covid surge spooks tea gardens

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The positive test result and hospital orders to quarantine have been a logistical nightmare for the Nattos, who have spent the last 15 days holed up in a wood shed behind the two-room plantation house they share with their children. Workers live in cramped living quarters where measures to curb the virus’s spread are difficult […]

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India’s Assam hit by second wave of COVID

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Guwahati, Assam, India – Gautam Sabar had been complaining of fever and headache for a week so on May 15, his son Gaurab Sabar took him to the in-house hospital at the Dimakuchi tea estate in northeast India’s Assam state. There was no doctor to attend to him and the health assistant present at the […]