The central government has approved the inclusion of Assam's tea estates in the National Mission on Edible Oils - Oil Palm ...

The central government has allowed tea estates in Assam to benefit from the flagship oil palm mission, weeks after an ...

The Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare will extend the NMEO-OP scheme to Assam's tea estates for oil palm cultivation. This decision follows NETA's appeal due to land classification ...

Tea estates can now use up to five percent of their land for oil palm cultivation while receiving financial assistance ...

The central government has allowed tea estates in Assam to benefit from the flagship oil palm mission, weeks after an industry body in the region made representations. The Tribune, now published ...

The tea industry in Bengal and Assam is facing a severe challenge due to infestation of green flies that emerged as a major threat over the past two years ...

The daily lives of ordinary people are severely disrupted when Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) occurs in a particular ...

The Assam Cabinet had further reinforced this ... allowing up to 15 percent of tea estate land to be used for alternative crops. A study conducted by NETA concluded that tea and oil palm can ...

Assam too registered a decline ... with the annual mean air temperature 0.65 degrees Celsius above normal, a tea estate in West Bengal recorded at least 33 days when the day temperature soared ...

Barkakoty said that the tea estates of Assam could not avail of the scheme because of land classification and certain other conditions in the guidelines. Therefore, the NETA appealed to both the ...