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Due to lack of irrigation facilities, thousands of small tea growers may end up with heavy losses for the second successive year.
GUWAHATI: Scarcity of rain has severely hit production of small tea growers (STGs) in upper Assam, who have been contributing to about half of the state’s tea production. Due to lack of irrigation facilities, thousands of STGs may end up with heavy losses for the second successive year. They lost the valuable first and second flush last year due to the lockdown.
Leading organic small tea grower Achyut Prasad Gogoi, the owner of Punjoy Organic Tea Plantation and Production, has bestowed all hope on the ‘rain god’ and has been sky-gazing for some showers. Several districts like Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia and Golaghat, which are producing a vital share of the state’s total tea production, are facing severe drought conditions, as there is hardly any impactable rain in the last 25 days. If there is no rain in the next seven days, Gogoi said there wi