Project Background:
Tea Processing is a crucial industrial activity in India. This is so because the country is one of the major producers, consumer and exporter of tea. Tea is a natural beverage brewed from the young leaves of an evergreen plant Camellia sinensis.
Raw Materials:
- Tea leaves
- Flavours for flavoured tea
Plant Specifications:
- Plant capacity: (output) per annum.
- Days operational – 300 days
- Hours operational – 20 hours
- Approximate area – acres
- Approximate project cost – crores
Market Share:
Tea gardens and tea industries are largely scattered covering a major part of India. The crop is grown in the certain districts located in Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and to some extent in Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. Though, tea is commercially cultivated in 16 states in India, of which, Assam (52.0%), West Bengal (21.9%), Tamil Nadu (14.6 %) and Kerala (7.1%) are accounted for more than 95% of the total tea production. Other traditional and non-traditional states where tea is produced in small extents are Tripura, Karnataka, Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Odisha and Bihar. Tea production in smallholding has been growing worldwide.
Tea is India’s primary beverage with almost 85% of total households in the country consuming tea. Demand supply gap has been increasing in India in recent years. While tea consumption has been growing at 3-3.5% every year, there has been no significant increase in plantation land in the last few years as per the market survey report. Tea trading in India is done in two ways – auction and private selling. Market reports are obtained from six major auction centres in India – Kolkata, Guwahati, Silguri, Cochin, Coonoor and Coimbatore where bulk trading is carried out through the suctions held in these centres.