Sustainable Tea Plantation Management

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Tea industry in India--an overview. 2. Sustainable tea cultivation. 3. Management of natural resources for sustainable livelihood in tea industry. 4. Quality and performance of tea management dimensions and dynamics. 5. Sustainable development of tea industry in national perspective. 6. Some aspects of Green Tea. 7. Sustainable tea plantation management. 8. Indian tea industry--critical eye. 9. Marketing channel of tea--The Pathway Movement. 10. Thrust areas of tea industry in India. 11. Role of research bodies for sustainable development of tea industry. 12. Sustainable development of tea industry in international perspective--areas of concern. 13. The panacea of all ills. 14. Tea--India and world. 15. International tea promotion. 16. India International Millennium Tea Convention--recommendations. Appendix. Annexure. References. Index.

From the Foreword: "The Tea industry provides the largest formal employment in the country. Of the total work force approximately half are women. Women are mostly engaged in plucking tea leaves. They are also employed in other field operations like weeding, irrigation, pruning etc. The tea farming community consists of mostly tribal, Scheduled Caste and other backward classes. Tea is the common man\'s beverage. Tea plantations are placed both under agriculture and industry classification. It is an industry in the sense that tea is a processed and manufactured commodity. It is an agricultural crop and is grown on land.

This book on "Sustainable Tea Plantation Management" covers an over view of the tea industry. The Indian tea brief dwells on tea farming, manufacturing , geographical location, distribution of estates by size group and age, extent of new planting, modes of disposal of crop, exports of bulk teas and value added items."