Guwahati, Feb 11 (.) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said that the state’s tea export has gone up by 40 million kg in the 2025-2026 financial year, while the orthodox tea yield also increased substantially in the current fiscal.
Hailing the improved production and export of tea as a strong turnaround after about 25 years, the Chief Minister said that the state has produced 50 million kgs of total tea of which 50 per cent is orthodox tea.
“As per the statistics available with us, while the export of Assam tea has increased by 40 million kgs, the production of the South Indian tea decreased in the current fiscal,” Sarma said while addressing a press conference.
He credited the policy decisions in the last five years for the improved production figures and added that the government has also decided to further incentivise the production of orthodox tea across the state.
“We earlier decided to give an incentive of Rs. 10 for every kg of orthodox tea produced. Now considering the improvement, our government has decided to increase the incentive to Rs. 15 per kg of orthodox tea produced,” the Chief Minister said.
“We have decided to increase the incentive for orthodox tea production so that we can see further stronger exports in the days to come,” he said.
The Chief Minister said that with the increased production figures, the tea producers in Assam would be able to take advantage of the recently signed free trade agreement with the European union countries. . ANP .