India is the largest tea producing country in the world and tea contributes 1% of the GDP of the country, apart from providing a direct livelihood to a large number of workers. However, in the recent past the productivity performance of Indian tea industry has not been very satisfactory. India’s predominance in the tea production is on decline and this has already started showing its bad effect...

water productivity index is one of the main factors in efficient use of water for agricultural products. in this study, the rate of water productivity (wp) in six irrigated tea fields and three rainfed (no irrigation) were assessed by farmer’s management for two years (2009-2010). yield of each tea field in successive harvests, soil moisture monitoring by gravimetric soil and use of water balan...

The cost reduction of green tea processing, the control of fossil fuel resources, and the curbing of corresponding greenhouse gases emission depend on the energy efficiency of tea processing units. Therefore, it is imperative to identify and analyze factors determining energy efficiency of these agro-industrial units. To this end, the present descriptive survey was carried out on 40 managers of...

Original Article AIMS: This study was proposed to investigate the association, if any, between nutritional status and work productivity in female tea pluckers of tea garden in Dooars, West Bengal. METHODS: All women who had worked as tea pluckers during the immediately preceding month excluding those who were pregnant, were recruited for this study. Socio-demographic variables, health and diet ...

This paper examines idiosyncrasies of tea plantation culture and politics in relation to Sri Lankan national and popular cultural typologies, with special reference to female tea plantation workers. Tea production in Sri Lanka is heavily based on manual labour, and it is the largest industry that provides accommodation for employees and their families. In this paper, it is argued that politico-...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of nutritional status on productivity of tea pluckers. DESIGN Cross-sectional, analytical. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS OF STUDY: All tea pluckers in five divisions of a tea estate in Hatton. MEASUREMENTS A dietary survey was conducted using the 24 h dietary recall method. Nutritional status was assessed by measurement of body mass index (BMI) and haemoglobin (Hb)...

Tea is grown in India in a wide amplitude of climatic variables, at latitudes from 8° 12' to 32° 13' N. Currently, an area of about 579,000 ha is under tea, the major tea growing states being Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Other states such as Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa, Tripura and Uttaranchal also grow tea in small areas. Tea plantations in India are traditionally ...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the impact of HIV/AIDS on individual labour productivity during disease progression. METHODS We used a retrospective cohort design to study the productivity and attendance of tea estate workers who died or were medically retired because of AIDS-related causes between 1997 and 2002 in western Kenya. We compared daily output in kilograms of tea leaves plucked, use of paid...

The unprecedented early spring frost that appears as a cold stress adversely affects growth and productivity in tea (Camellia sinensis L.); therefore, it is indispensable to develop approaches to improve the cold tolerance of tea. Here, we investigated the effect of pretreatment with exogenous melatonin on the net photosynthetic rate, the maximum photochemical efficiency of PSII, chlorophyll co...

abstract in this research we studied the economical effects of rainfed irrigation and 4, 8, 12 and 16 day sprinkler irrigation intervals as well as their effects on water productivity and tea quality. the study was done in fouman tea research station, northern part of iran where tea is a major crop, during growing season of 2002-2004. the results showed that during dry season of 2002 and 2003 y...