Dibrugarh: Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha (ACM), the largest tea trade union in the country, has demanded the Ministry of Tea at Assam to say that it would help revive the country’s tea industry that passed the slow phase.
Participating in the 63rd Foundation Day of the ACMS at his head office in Dibrugarh on Monday, ACM President and Former Minister of Doner Union Paban Singh Ghatowar said that establishing the Ministry of Tea in Assam was a legitimate person because the tea industry had ended 195 years of noble history and Provide livelihoods to several million people.
“The name Assam is identical to tea throughout the world.
Tea is one of the main contributors to the state of the state and millions of people involved in the tea industry in the state.
When the country can have services for fisheries, why we cannot have a tea ministry.
At the time of the tea industry Passing through the slow phase due to covid conditions and such a drought, establishing a ministry of tea at the state level will provide a boost needed for its resurrection.
The government and policy makers must advance to provide forms on the idea.
In fact, the Ministry of Tea should have been formed for a long time considering the importance of the tea industry in The state.
This is the largest labor generator industry that provides livelihoods of lakh people, “said President of ACM Paban Singh Ghatowar.
With more than 800 major tea plantations and thousands of small tea gardens, Assam contributed to nearly 51% of tea produced in this country.
However, the price of stagnant, lukewarm global demand, rainfall deficit and pandemic Covid-19 has left the state tea industry in trouble.
In 2019, the annual tea production in Assam was 716.49 million kg which fell to 618.20 million kg in 2020, 14%.
Drop only because of covid-induced locking.