Siliguri: More than 75 per cent of the bought-leaf factories in north Bengal have closed down because of acute shortage of tea leaves triggered by low rain and pest attacks during the time of first flush when the best quality brew is produced.
To tide over the crisis, BLF owners have sought government intervention.
Severe drought prevailing in southern plantation areas has caused heavy damage to the tea plantations.
Many tea estates in Akuressa, Morawak Korale and Hinidum Pattu have been destroyed due to the drought and tea plucking of several tea estates including many smallholdings has also been temporarily stopped.
Well-grown tea lands are seen scorched and factory owners said that they have reduced
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Following a modest beginning in the early 90s, tea plantation has made a quantum jump in Kishanganj, the only district in the state where tea is grown and has thus put Bihar on the tea map of the country.
The Tata Tea company running the Kanan Devan Hill plantation tea estates in Munnar, on Wednesday scored a temporary victory over the CPI (M) Government of Kerala with the Kerala High Court ordering status quo for three weeks on the two dams and an electrified fence
The total production of tea in Assam in 2009 was 500 million kgs, compared to the 487 million kgs produced by the State in 2008, said tea industry sources here.
In the Brahmaputra Valley, production was ahead by about 12.78 million kgs during the year, while the Barak Valley was behind by about 0.28 million kgs compared to 2008.
The tea industry has sought reduction of land revenue rates and cess on green leaf so that the gardens in Assam get a level playing field to compete with the tea gardens of the other parts of the country.
The Kanan Devan Hills Plantations Ltd, a Tata arm managing tea estates in Munnar, petitioned the Kerala High Court on Thursday against the Idukki District Collector
