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Government Strengthens Assam’s Tea Sector Through Tea Development & Promotion Scheme Tea Board Promotes Assam’s Tea Industry with Productivity and Producer Empowerment Efforts
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....overnment Strengthens Assam’s Tea Sector Through Tea Development & Promotion Scheme Tea Board Promotes Assam’s Tea Industry with Productivity and Producer Empowerment Efforts<BR>News and Press Release<BR>Dated:- 2-12-2025<BR><BR>Government of India through Tea Board is implementing the 'Tea Development & Promotion Scheme (TDPS)' across the country, including in the State of Assam. The scheme i....
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....nter alia aims to increase the production and productivity of tea, improve quality of tea entering the markets, enhance exports, mobilize small tea growers into forming Self Help Groups and Farmer Producer Organizations (SHGs/FPOs) to enable them to move up the value chain, provide support for setting up of mini tea factories by SHGs/FPOs to make them self-sustainable and undertake capacity buildi....
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....ng programs. Under the scheme, out of Tea Board's overall budget, Rs.152.76 Crore was allocated and Rs.150.20 Crore was utilized by Tea Board for activities specific to the State of Assam during the period 2021-22 to 2025-26 (till 31.10.2025). The details of number of small growers who have benefited under the scheme, district wise and year wise, are attached as Annexure-I. Under the Tea Develop....
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....ment & Promotion Scheme, activities undertaken in the State of Assam during the period 2021-22 to 2025-26 (till 31.10.2025) inter alia include re-plantation of tea in 437.42 Ha area; formation of 318 SHGs, 143 FPOs & 26 FPCs; setting up of 31 mini tea factories; conversion of 30.32 Ha area of tea plantations into organic; setting up of 30 farm field schools and organisation of 1343 capacity buildi....
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....ng programs. The export of Indian tea, which includes Assam Tea, has also grown from 751.07 million USD in 2021-22 to 923.89 million USD in 2024-25 with a CAGR of 7.15 %. An evaluation study of 'Tea Development & Promotion Scheme (TDPS)' was carried out by the Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO), NITI Aayog and its report with key recommendations submitted in May 2023. The report ....
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....inter alia mentioned about satisfactory implementation of the Board's plantation schemes as well as its achievements in formation of SHGs/FPOs of small tea growers and helping them to set up tea factories. It also mentioned about the scheme's satisfactory impact in terms of increasing productivity. The key recommendations in the report inter alia included replantation, scaling up of brand promotio....
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....n efforts, formation of SHGs/FPOs of small tea growers, dissemination of knowledge to farmers on Good Agriculture Practices and capacity building of Small Tea Growers. These recommendations were considered while finalizing the TDPS scheme for the period 2023-24 to 2025-26. This information was given by the Minister of State for Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Shri Jitin Prasada, in a written rep....
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....ly in the Lok Sabha today. *** Abhishek Dayal/Shabbir Azad/Anushka Pandey  ....
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....; Annexure -I Numbers....
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.... of beneficiaries Sl. No. District 2021-22 2022-23 2023-2024 2024-25 2025-26 (till 31.10.2025) 1 Baksa 5 0 55 10 1 3 Biswanath 331 397 227 140 482 4 Bongaigaon 339 0 550 88 4 5 Cachar 473 171 0 720 78 6 Charaideo 117 67 153 0 263 7 Dhemaji 512 639 162 164 256 8 Dibrugarh 4101 4548 614 3052 1504 9 Goalpara 118 0 223 0 0 10 Golaghat 2....
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....863 3245 983 1653 399 11 Jorhat 1835 1645 881 1060 348 12 Karbi Anglong 403 0 75 685 130 13 Kokrajhar 147 259 0 18 0 14 Lakhimpur 920 927 391 415 736 15 Nagaon 1208 1069 250 961 104 16 Sivasagar 309 0 129 753 466 17 Sonitpur 1144 955 716 478 754 18 Tinsukia 5203 2897 1412 5972 1485 19 Udalguri 1175 1202 417 533 459 TOTAL 21203 1....
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