North East’s First Integrated Tea Park to be set up in Chaygaon, Assam

• Procedure to establish the first integrated tea park of the North East region have begun
  
• The proposed park would come up at Chaygaon on the outskirts of Guwahati
  
• It would offer infrastructure of International standards and the state of the art facilities
  
• It would also build world class facilities for processing, warehousing, auction centre, blending and packaging, and generate employment
  
• India’s 55% total tea production is contributed by North East
  
• Following completion of the park, the tea export is likely to be amplified to a large degree
  

Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011