India is the second-largest tea exporter in the world, and the main tea-growing regions exist in the states of Assam and West Bengal. While some $831 million worth of.
Guwahati, Assam, India – Gautam Sabar had been complaining of fever and headache for a week so on May 15, his son Gaurab Sabar took him to the in-house hospital at the Dimakuchi tea estate in northeast India’s Assam state.
There was no doctor to attend to him and the health assistant present at the facility prescribed him some medicine and let him go, Gaurab told Al Jazeera.
The next morning, as Gautam’s condition deteriorated, the son rushed him to the health facility again. This time the assistant put him in the tea garden’s ambulance and sent him to a government facility 20 kilometres (12 miles) away where he tested positive for COVID-19.
CM Himanta Biswa Sarma assures solution of all problems of tea communities
Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma today held a meeting with the representatives of the Central Committee of Assam Tea Tribe Association at the conference room of his office in Janata Bhawan and discussed several issues confronting the tea tribe community including intensifying vaccination drives in tea garden areas.
| 23 May 2021 2:30 AM GMT
GUWAHATI: Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma today held a meeting with the representatives of the Central Committee of Assam Tea Tribe Association at the conference room of his office in Janata Bhawan and discussed several issues confronting the tea tribe community including intensifying vaccination drives in tea garden areas.
The hidden threat and drought combine to jeopardize India’s tea harvest
India’s tea harvest is at risk because Covid-19 infections have spread to plantations struggling with a severe drought.
Ninety tea gardens in Assam, India’s leading tea producers, have reported cases and numerous declared containment sites, according to the local tea association, as authorities are trying to spread the virus to more than 800 plantations in the state.
About 500 cases have been confirmed but the plants say more studies are needed to detect the true magnitude of the outbreak.
India is the world’s second largest producer after China, and competes in the export market with countries like Kenya and Sri Lanka.