date:Jul 15, 2019
(Source: Tea Board)
At present, 11 tea gardens are closed in the country. The main reasons for closure of these gardens are attributed to poor yield of the estates, ageing bush profile and high vacancy percentage in tea area, negligible uprooting/replanting of age-old tea bushes for years, poor garden management practices, falling quality and price realisations, overall lack of development perspective, highly debt-oriented funding strategy and ownership disputes.