Tea Board to fund training

Kolkata: Tea Board will fund capacity-building training for small tea growers (STGs) across the country whose production volumes exceed more than 50 per cent of overall produced annually. The Confederation of Indian Small Tea Growers Associations (CISTA) said that under the capacity building training programme, awareness on food safety, use of banned chemicals, use of pesticides and adoption of plant protection code (PPC) would also be discussed among the STGs.