Absenteeism and immigration issues pose serious challenges to Assam’s teahouses: Chairman of the Barak Valley Branch of the Indian Tea Association
At the Association’s 50th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) at Silchar’s Cachar Club, he said this ongoing trend disrupted operations, created a labor shortage and forced the estate to resort to expensive alternative procurement methods to maintain its day-to-day functions. “This type of challenge is at a time when financial constraints are already increasing property resources. The additional expenditure required to manage this human deficit has exacerbated the pressure on real estate finance and created a complex financial burden. In addition, many businesses remain uncertain about the effective mechanisms to address this tension.”
He added that to address this issue, alternative solutions to mitigate the impact of labor shortages must be considered. One solution is the gradual adoption of mechanization. By integrating the mechanized process into operations, tea gardens can ensure continuous productivity and maintain their output levels even if human availability is reduced. Mechanization provides dual benefits to improving operational efficiency while promoting sustainable growth. In labor-intensive sectors such as tea production, balancing between manual and mechanized processes is crucial for future agility and resilience. Although the transition may require initial investment, it has the potential to ensure long-term stability of the estate.
He observed that today’s tea industry is at a critical crossroads. Despite the impressive economic growth in India and GDP grew by 7.6%, our industry still faces an ambivalent situation that calls for introspection and resilience. “On the one hand, the status quo of the tea industry is a sense of pride that the tea industry in Assam has completed its glorious survival for 200 years, and the entire state and the country are delighted to achieve this important milestone. On the other hand, we are also on the brink of uncertainty, in the country, in the tea industry in the Barak Valley region, the total production of the tea industry is almost 40-terminal in the Barak Valley region, almost Barak Valley terminal. MKG and average production costs are close to Rs 200.
He said the total tea production in the Barak Valley recorded in 2024 was 39.32 million kilograms, compared with 39.18 million kilograms in 2023, including 1.49 million kilograms in 2024 and 134,000 kilograms in 2023, compared with a steep debris drop in most tea results in India. It is worth mentioning that production in the region was 56.26 mkgs in 2003.
A study showed that 70% of the production output in the valley comes from 37 tea gardens, with a total of 99 registered tea gardens in the valley, and the remaining tea gardens produce 30% of the balance. In 2024, the average yield per hectare of the Barak Valley is about 1,100 kg. This is a very concern, that the average yield of Barak Valley tea plantations has declined sharply since 2004. In comparison, the average yield of the Assam Valley is 2200 kg, the industry’s low land productivity is about model, which can be challenged by obesity refreshments. The decisive effect can make your vacancy poor and can challenge Frem (Bushian). The challenge rate is challenging, decisive and decisive, and is about the same as the decisive price. Rejuvenation fill. Unfortunately, the industry has been working to keep up with the necessary reimplantation rates due to financial constraints. He added that the fund’s request for reimplantation and rejuvenation fill may be addressed friendly in an appropriate way. He said fuel is an important part of the production of tea. The industry in the region has suffered a lot in terms of electricity. On average, tea gardens in the area witnessed 40% of the electricity unavailable through the grid supply. Since the cost of generating electricity itself is almost twice the supply of the grid, the cost of captive electricity generated by using a diesel account is at least 10-12% of the final production cost of the final production of tea.
Most importantly, manufacturing tea requires stable voltage, any frequent interruptions and voltage drops. Daunt taunt manufacturing and obligations fall on captive power generation to continue the manufacturing process. If the manufacturing process is terminated due to the lack of necessary voltage, the manufacturing quality of the garden will be reduced.
Singh said that since the production costs of estates located in the Barak Valley are much higher, most estates have lower tea than actual production costs than actual losses for the reasons mentioned above. This leads to an increase in producer debt and lending increases day-to-day operations.
He added that due to the pathetic road conditions and the mountain seasons that often occur on the roads from Barak Valley to Guwahati, the transport of inputs and outputs of the tea industry is still disturbed, and proper attention is needed to be paid to the authorities.
“We express our sincere gratitude to the Assam Government’s initiative aimed at improving the feasibility of the Assam tea industry. The Assam Government’s Special Incentive Scheme for Tea Industry (ATISIS) proposed by the Assam Government in 2020, in a recent announcement, we also announced the announcement of the announcement, which is an announcement for India. Through the blockchain-powered tea auction, we hope this digital platform will revolutionize the tea industry by ensuring safe transactions and fair pricing.
