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The Tea Board has finalised schemes at an outlay of Rs 2,550 crore during the 12th Plan.
“In this, two new schemes have been added at an outlay of Rs 350 crore – one to promote small grower development and the other to implement regulatory measures. The balance Rs 2,200 crore will be on continuing the five schemes of the previous Plan,” the Tea Board member, Dr S. Ramu, told Business Line .
“The revised outlay for the existing schemes entails Rs 800 crore for Plantations Development, Rs 500 crore for Quality Upgradation and Product Diversification, Rs 400 crore for Market Promotion, Rs 300 crore for Human Resources Development and Rs 200 crore for Research and Development,” he said.
“Under the new schemes, Rs 300 crore is for tea small grower development. This has to be carefully drawn up and implemented because, the productivity of this sector will have wide ramifications on the overall performance of the country’s tea industry,” said Mr P. Viswanathan, who represents the Lok Sabha on the Board.
“We have to examine the other new scheme meant to implement regulatory measures at an outlay of Rs 50 crore in the backdrop of the emerging concept that the Board should adopt the function of guiding and directing rather than regulating or controlling the tea industry,” he said.
Collectively, the Board’s outlay is aimed at taking India’s tea production to 1,185 million kg (mkg) when the XII 12th Plan ends from 1,050 mkg at the Plan’s opening year.
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