The present work focuses on the prospects and benefits of small tea cultivation in Terai & Duars as a source of self employment. Being a labour intensive industry, it is the source of employment for the people and it is the ideal area of mass and quality tea production along with Darjeeling hill of West Bengal. It has positive economic impact that ensuring a new employment opportunity towards the young generation and proper utilisation of local resources also ensure the source of revenue of state as well as the country. It is estimated that around 28, 000 small Tea Growers (STGs) in Terai & Duars creating employment for around 1.7 lakh local peoples and it gradually changing the socio-economic status of the rural areas of these sub-Himalayan region of India.
Impact Factor
2022: 6.012
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