Kangra Tea Industry had a golden history but today it is struggling to survive. Kangra was one of the sites where British introduced the China tea in the...
Tea as well as tea consumption was prevalent in China (also in North East India) for thousands of years. Tea made inroads into Europe mainly via two routes....
India is world’s fourth largest tea exporter after China, Sri Lanka and Kenya. India exported 222 million Kg tea in 2010; but in recent years, these figures are...
Botanical name of Tea is Camellia sinensis. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. Tea is an evergreen plant that mainly grows in...
Cotton Corporation of India was established in 1970 under Companies Act 1956. It’s a Government of India’s corporate agency, engaged in diverse activities related to trade, procurement, and...
Cotton provides direct employment to around 60 Lakh farmers and indirect employment to around 4-5 Crore People via cotton based industries. It is also one of the largest...
India is world’s largest cotton exporter after United States. Till 2003-04, India was net importer of cotton; however after that India has been a net exporter thanks to...
Cotton is grown as a kharif crop in India. The planting period of cotton normally is from March to September, while the harvesting period is from October to...
Earliest evidences of cotton are from Mehrgarh where cotton cultivated 7,000 years ago. During the Indus Valley Civilization, cotton was cultivated abundantly and cotton industry was well developed....
It has been more than two years since April 2013, when the union government decided to lift some control on the sugar industry. Via this government scrapped the...
