This study analyses the impact of the asean-India Preferential Trade Agreement on plantation commodities – coffee, tea and pepper – using the smart and gravity models. This reveals that the agreement may cause a significant increase in India’s imports of plantation commodities from the asean countries, which is mostly driven by trade creation rather than trade diversion.
During the last two decades much has been written about the biodiversity richness of country. Avoiding all the numerical details about the documented species an attempt has been made to provide information about the relative forest systems of India. For classifying the vegetation the altitude has been adopted as vital factor in detailing the vegetation.
Tea industry of the NE region today called for an integrated state-of-the-art tea park in Guwahati, besides upgradation of the existing centre of the Indian Institute of Plantation Management (IIPM) at Jorhat into a full fledged institute and upgradation of the Guwahati Tea Auction Centre to an international business hub of tea.
The Assam Valley Branch Consultative Committee of Plantation Assoc
Read this summary of the monitoring of pesticide residues in the food commodities conducted from April 2008 to March 2009 at national level by Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and the IARI.
Many small tea growers in upper Assam are facing a crisis as the fertility of their land is gradually diminishing on account of widespread use of pesticides and other inorganic fertilizers. It needs to be mentioned that since the 70
