PATNA: Covid-19 might have negatively affected many businesses, but Kishanganj-based tea farmers have another story to narrate. The leaves generated from farmlands have been sold at higher costs to businesses for the previous one year because the stunt faded. Whoever owns a 50-acre tea pot from Kishanganj, Ilyas Rahmani, maintains he was gaining anywhere between Rs 20 and Rs 40 percent because of its uncooked leaves because last year. Prior to this he’d receive just Rs 15. Rahmani, who’d entered the company two years ago, states,”That really is the best price I’ve so far.” The other tea garden owner, Raj Karan Daftari, echoes similar opinions. “we’ve been promoting raw tea leaves at higher costs to the businesses. One reason is the high need,” he states, adding the price of green tea leaves has gone up from Rs 80 to Rs 150 per kg and Rs 300 to Rs 400 per watt. Asked about the Covid security protocols being followed from the blossoms, Daftari asserts that the employees don’t intermingle. “Individuals who operate in the blossoms, mostly belong to nearby tribes and barely step out as a consequence of that they don’t have any contact with other people,” he adds. On the flip side, Iqbal Ahmad, who possesses a tea in Thakurganj block, is”generating awareness about Covid-appropriate behavior among the employees” by making sure they pay their faces and follow societal distancing standards. The exponential growth in the amount of Covid-19 instances in the rural regions has come to be a subject of concern to them all.
Bihar: Tea Lawn owners rake in the moolah Regardless of Covid
