India coffee - News - Domestic policies also hurting plantation sector' (#)

  „The plantation industry is being edged out of the market as much due to domestic policies as international competition. "Trade should not be just free but also fair," said Mr Vijayann P. Rajes, Chairman, Planters' Association of Tamil Nadu.“

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  „It has also appealed to the Centre to exempt South Indian teas from excise duty. Upasi said for more than three years, all the major plantation crops in South India had been undergoing crisis due to high cost and lower price realization. The tea industry, particularly in South India has been reeling under a crisis for over two years by now because of the sharp fall in prices and, in contrast, steep escalation in costs.“

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  „A Coffee Board press-release issued has said this decision was taken so as to provide some relief to small growers. With over 80 per cent of India's coffee being exported, small growers have been badly affected by the current slump in international prices with realisations falling below the cost of production for quite a few grades, especially Robusta.“

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India coffee - News - Planters seek abolition of agricultural income tax

  „Briefing newspersons here today on the eve of the Upasi-Karnataka Planters' Association annual conference, Anil Bhandari, president of Upasi said that the bulk of those cultivating plantation commodities like tea, coffee, spices and rubber were small and medium growers and that, in states like Karnataka, it was this section which came under the purview of the AIT composition scheme where they were required to pay taxes on the basis of the acreage.“

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  „In one case, the panel was cupping coffee from the same trees and the same farm (the highest-rated Balanoor Estates and the considerably lower-rated India Mysore Plantation A var. Kent). In the case of the latter coffee, some panelists complained of a slight taint that lowered their assessment of the sample.“

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  „We have also been supporting the Self Help Groups (SHG) for procuring the green leaves. We have own retail outlets to sell our teas and our packets are well received in the market", said Mr. Ramesh Bhojarajan who manages the Vigneshwar Estate Tea Factory in Aravenu off Kotagiri.“

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