Fifty-four tea gardens and 2,800 small growers: the size of Tripura's tea industry

Background

Tripura's new tea auction centre serves an industry that the Tripura Tea Development Corporation Limited counts at 54 tea gardens, held by the government, by private owners and by cooperative societies.
Beside them the State has about 2,800 small tea growers.
Made tea output is put at 8 to 9 million kilograms a year, along with roughly 45 million kilograms of green tea leaf.
Tripura is the fifth largest tea producing State in India, after West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
A tea auction centre is the place where lots of made tea are graded, tasted and sold to the highest bidder, and that is how most Indian tea reaches buyers.
Setting up an auction centre inside the State had been listed by the Corporation as one of its aims, which is what the Agartala centre now answers.