Quality tags must for tea export below threshold price

Tea Board Chairman M. G. V. K. Bhanu has said that beginning February 1, quality certificates from Board-accredited laboratories would be made mandatory for tea export below a cut off price . In November, a delegation of tea merchants from Pakistan pointed out to the Tea Board that substandard imported teas were re-exported to Pakistan in the guise of Indian tea. Pakistani delegates also proposed that the Board impose restrictions on export of tea worth below $1 a kg to the neighbouring

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