Will Push For Infrastructure Status For Sector: Tea Board

Move aimed at getting funding to fight climate change

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The Tea Board of India is planning to seek “infrastructure status” for the industry so as to be able to get much-needed funding support and work towards combating the effects of climate change.

According to PK Bezbaruah, Chairman, Tea Board, the tea industry as a whole occupies around 500,000 hectares of land. The entire tea area across the country has been developed by tea companies; hence it would only be logical to assign it infrastructure status.

“The Tea Board and industry will work hand in hand and come up with a proposal and then we will talk to the government,” Bezbaruah told newspersons on the sidelines of a tea conclave organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce here on Friday.