Guwahati, Dec 11 : Noting that tea manufacturers are not paying remunerative prices for green leaf to small growers, the Tea Board has issued a set of directives to ensure transparency and compliance in the transactions.

The Board has directed every registered manufacturer engaged in purchasing tea leaf to maintain a separate register giving details of the green leaf suppliers with address, quantity of leaf purchased on daily basis with corresponding fine leaf count.

The fine leaf count will have to be done following the ‘ballometric’ method in the presence of the green leaf supplier. The ballometric method is a technique developed by the Tea Research Association (TRA) to measure the percentage of fine leaves (buds and young leaves) in a plucked tea harvest.

Manufacturers have been cla

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