Temi tea garden is a government-run estate that has a plantation area of 440 acres in southern Sikkim. Dr. Rahul Banerjee, Head - Corporate Governance, Temi Tea, spoke to BE’s Kuntala Sarkar.Q. How is your company performing during the current financial year (FY 2019-20) being an organic tea prod...
The Amalgamated Plantations, carved out of the Tata group, is one of the important players in the tea industry. Jagjeet Kandal, Managing Director, Amalgamated Plantations (APPL), spoke to BE’s Aritra Mitra.Q. Tell us about the growth of your company?A. Amalgamated Plantations is the second largest...
The Goodricke group is a prominent player in the Indian tea industry. Atul Asthana, Managing Director, Goodricke, spoke to BE’s Kuntala Sarkar.Q. Tell us about your present operations?A. The growth rate of our company is 7% to 8% year-on-year. We have 12 gardens in Dooars, 15 gardens in Ass...
Kalyan Nanda is a well-known tea industry consultant. BE’s Kishore Kumar Biswas spoke to him.Q . How did China supersede India in tea production and export?A. For the last few years, I am not too concerned with Chinese tea production. However, India and China share age-old intimate links pertainin...
There seems to be an ongoing labour crisis in the organised tea gardens in India. This predicament has been aggravated by the stagnancy in the Indian tea industry. Looking back, the tea estates were initiated during the British period and operated under oppressive structures that mainly exploited th...
International Tea Day is being celebrated in major tea producing countries like India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Uganda, and Tanzania. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has identified May 21 as the International Tea Day based on a proposal pl...