Compared to the previous year, Assam’s tea production as well as the prices declined in 2023, which is not a good sign for the Assam tea industry as a whole and the scenario has thrown up new challenges.
A week after the state director of agriculture banned the use of an insecticide, monocrotophos, in vegetable and tea plantations, not many are paying heed to it. The insecticide has the potential to affect the nervous system and other organs in the human body, if consumed.
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