Ilam tea farmers call for uniform pricing
Published on Monday, July 29, 2013
2:36 PM //
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Mangalbare (Ilam):
Tea
farmers in Ilam district have called on the tea factories to maintain
uniformity in the tea price.
A gathering of tea farmers held
recently voiced this demand citing that they were having to bear losses due to
lack of uniformity in the price of freshly picked tealeaves.
It is said that tea factories
located east of the local Mai River and those located to the west of it have
different price for the green tealeaves that they buy from farmers. A tea
farmers cooperatives at local Barbote pays Rs. 45 per kilogram for the first
grade tealeaves and Rs. 35 per kilogram for the second grade tealeaves.
The tea factories to the east of the
Mai are said to pay in the range of Rs. 40 per kilogram to Rs. 60 per kilogram
for green tealeaves. But some factories are said to pay Rs. 30 to 40 per
kilogram. RSS
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