Kohima:The All Nagaland Small Tea Growers’ Association (ANSTGA) has made an appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his intervention in setting up of small tea production factories in or near the tea growing area of the state. besides establishment of a Tea Board office.
A memorandum addres-sed to the Prime Minister, signed by ANSTGA Presi-dent D Hukiye Kibami and Senior Vice President S K James, apprised the Prime Minister of the need for factories and a tea board office in the state by poin-ting that Nagaland in the recent time has emerged as one of the non-traditional tea growing areas with large number of Naga people taking up tea cultivation as an alternative means of livelihood.
However, the memoran-dum stated that the cultiva-tion, which is eco-friendly, organic and creates employ-ment opportunities to large population, was ‘faced with grim situation due to non-existence tea production facility in the state.'(UNI)