The Uttarakhand Tea Development Board (UTDB), Almora, has asked the officials concerned to take necessary steps to achieve the target of selling tea worth Rs80 lakh during the current financial year 2013-2014.
Akshat Gupta, Almora District Magistrate and Director, UTDB, has emphasised on the need to achieve the target in time , directing the officials concerned to take necessary steps to meet the target given to them of selling tea worth Rs80 lakh during the current financial year 2013- 2014.
More so, efforts must be taken to improve the quality of Uttarakhand tea so that it can be given a special identity in the national and international markets, Gupta has further asked the officials concerned of different tea factories.
At the same time, the Director, UTDB, has also called upon the officials concerned to take necessary measures to increase income of the tea department by way of increasing tea production.
To increase tea production maintaining its quality is vital to increase income, further said Gupta .
It is to note that the UTDB is presently running four project of tea production in Chamoli, Champawat, Ghorakhal (Nainital) and Kausani in Bageshwar.
All the officials concerned are supposed to work in these tea projects properly, Gupta further said.