Guwahati: Small tea farmers in Assam must supply 40% of good quality tea leaves to the leaf factory purchased.
Such settings will apply until the Indian tea council appears at a new minimum benchmark price and price sharing formula.
The following decisions were taken after the stakeholder meetings on Thursday, chaired by the Chairman of the Indian Tea Council and was attended by his executive director, representatives of the Association of Manufacturers and Directors of Small Farmers Association tokklai about the quality problems and prices of green leaves provided by small tea farmers to producers.
“The tea board will review the price of minimum benchmarks (MBP) and third parties will be engaged to conduct appropriate studies.
Videos that show the right way to calculate” count of ballometric “(to calculate the percentage of green leaves) has been made by toklai and the thing the same will be distributed by the council to educate smallholders and factories.
The minimum minimum minimum leaf number (according to the number of ballometric) must be 40% and strictly enforced.
All factories to turn on less leaves from 40% fine leaf count, “Bidyananda Barkakoty, Advisor to the Northeast Tea Association (Neta) and former Deputy Chairperson of the Indian tea council, said on Friday.
He added this setting will apply until the board appears with the new MBP and the price sharing formula.
On Wednesday Neta in a letter to Arunita Phukan Yadav, the executive director of the tea council of the Indian Zonal Office, stated that the circle of the top of the tea leaf was unacceptable because there was no three leaf and bud concepts in Assam Tea.
“We have written to the tea board several times in the past to conduct a study through famous third parties and therefore improves the PSF, MBP and the minimum quality (Maq) of green leaves.
Unless we improve the above, a misunderstanding between tea farmers and tea producers will appear from time to time.
According to the board, there is PSF (which repair the price of green leaves on an annual basis and based on the realization of individual factory prices in accordance with the board board-e back) and there is a MBP (which repair the price of green leaves in the monthly-wise district And based on the previous month GTAC sales).
The price of green leaves cannot be repaired if we have PSF and MBP according to the applicable formula, “the letter stated.