Staff Reporter
Guwahati: An order from the Tea Board of India will now enable the manufacturing of tea for the 2025 season in the seven northeastern states from February 17, 2025. The Board notifies the start and end of the tea season on a regular basis every year. The last tea season ended in the first week of December 2024.
According to the recent order of the Tea Board for the resumption of tea manufacturing activities in the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, and Manipur, the plucking and receiving of green leaves for all the tea factories for the commencement of the 2025 tea season will start from February 17.
The Board’s order states, “Whereas, plucking of tea leaf and manufacturing of tea will have to commence from the next cropping season in the year 2025 after the winter dormancy of the tea bushes is over and the tea bushes start producing tea leaf/sprouting buds afresh. Whereas suggestions and feedback have been heard/received from the industry stakeholders, scientific institutions for stipulating a suitable timeline for starting of the current cropping season’s tea manufacturing in accordance with the natural cropping pattern of the tea bushes. Therefore, in continuation to the earlier order in respect of the 2024 season’s ending, the directives for the starting date of plucking and receiving green leaves from the implementation date of February 17, 2025, are hereby issued for mandatory compliance by all the tea manufacturers and producers of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, and Manipur.”
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