Financing of Small Tea Growers in India

Abstract

Of late number of small growers in Tea cultivation is steadily increasing, in tea-growing areas of the country. This
is prompted by the fact that traditional crops are not giving returns commensurate with the input costs, which are
increasing day by day, and poor marketing facilities. This has resuhed in the bought leaf factories apart from the
established tea gardens to buy the leaf from these small growers to increase their own production and better utilization
of their factory capacities.