Published on : 15 Nov 2025, 2:54 am

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: The small tea growers of all the tea-growing northeastern states moved Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the plea to ensure an MSP (minimum support price) for green leaf like other agricultural crops. Earlier, the small tea growers of Assam had repeatedly urged the Union Ministry of Industries and Commerce, the Tea Board of India and the Assam government to announce MSP for green leaf, but to no avail.

The small tea growers produce around 48 per cent of the total green tea production in Assam. Despite this, they have to cry out for remunerative prices of green leaf from the bought tea factories.

The Northeast Confederation of Small Tea Growers' Association requested the Prime Minister in a memorandum to introduce a mec

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