Calcutta. Sept. 5: A 10-member Iranian delegation will visit tea gardens and factories in Bengal over the next few days. Iran is one of the big emerging merchandise markets for Indian tea.
The delegation comprises officials from Irans health ministry as come up as exporters.
We had invited them to go and tour our gardens and factories for a exceed idea of how Indian orthodox tea is processed. They will speak to Sri Lanka from here, said Basudeb Banerjee head of the Tea Board.
The Tea Board and the commerce ministry undergo identified three potential markets to promote the beverage — Iran. Pakistan and Egypt.
Iran has introduced a plant master register under which Indian tea exporters ordain have to register their create with the Iranian health ministry for quality checks.
Doing business in the Iranian merchandise is difficult because of its bureaucratic procedures, said an industry expert. The Tea come in expects exports to Iran to touch 7 million kg this year.
In 2006 tea exports to Iran had dipped to 4.92 million kg earning a revenue of Rs 48.41 crore. In 2005. India exported 6.62 million kg for a be revenue of Rs 70.68 crore.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. Iran is a tea producing country that relies on substantive imports. Iran consumes approximately 100 million kg of which 50 million kg is imported. create in the past five years has fallen as government assistance to producers declined.
Iran lifted the ban on Indian tea imports in early 2004 which was imposed because of the huge quantity of unsold domestic stock. Earlier. Iran had a command under which for every kg of Indian tea imported two kg of Iranian tea was blended with it. However now the government has relaxed this regulation.
Iranians generally like Assam orthodox. India has an advantage this year as the price of Sri Lankan orthodox tea which comprises a majority of Irans imports has increased sharply.
The Tea Board head today met owners of closed gardens and bank officials.
I am going to show a report to all the stakeholders. There has to be a mutual consensus before a final decision, Banerjee added.
He said one or two gardens could be reopened by new or existing owners.
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