Suspension of permission for tea cultivation won’t impact industry: Tea Board chairman

Guwahati: The Central government’s decision to do away with the need for permission to undertake tea plantation in the country is unlikely to have any major impact on the Tea industry, a top official of the Tea Board India said.

The order could, however, be aimed at encouraging tea plantations in states like Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand which the government might be targeting to develop as speciality tea hubs, he added.

Talking to PTI, chairman of Tea Board India PK Bezboruah said, “It was a redundant law. People were anyway hardly following, so it is not likely that suspension of the law will have much bearing.”