Arunachal Pradesh has proposed an
investment of Rs five crore for tea cultivation
Under the proposed
scheme, progressive tea growers would be provided financial assistance Rs one
lakh per farmer for cultivating tea in one hectare.
The exercise for
inviting applications from willing tea growers was under process and
enumeration of tea farmers were also in process.
The physical target
proposed during the last financial year include 20 hectares each in West
Kameng, East Kameng, East Siang, Upper Siang, West Siang, Upper Subansiri,
Lower Subansiri and Kurung Kumey districts and 21 hectares each have been
proposed in Papum Pare, Lower Dibang Valley, Lohit, Changlang, Tirap and
Changlang districts for tea cultivation.
However, so far
the proposal has not been cleared by the high level monitoring committee due to
which the fund has not been released to the department yet.
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