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[ Prafulla Kaman ]<\/strong><\/p>\n JONAI, 3 May:<\/strong> A tea manufacturing unit of Ashirvad Tea Industry of Assam’s Jonai has been set up at Jhanji village (Dekapam) near NH-515 in Assam’s Dhemaji district on Wednesday, much to the delight of the small tea growers of the Assam-Arunachal boundary area as they will now be able to sell their green tea leaves at their door step without much difficulties.<\/p>\n The tea industry, owned by established businessman Ajoy Kr Agarwala will collect green tea leaves from the small tea gardens of the inter-state boundary area for processing and packaging the finished product.<\/p>\n The owner of the tea industry said that he has a target of manufacturing around 9 lakh kgs of red tea besides, a few specialty tea forms in a year.<\/p>\n As per reports, there are more than 500 small tea growers in the boundary area, who produce around 36,000 lakh kg tea leaves per annum.<\/p>\n “It is an opportunity for us to supply tea leaves with low transportation cost as the industry has been set up at our courtyard,” Nijum Angu, a tea grower of Nari, who has developed a tea garden of 25 bighas, said.<\/p>\n Another tea grower Tatem Kaye also expressed hope that the new industry would immensely help them to grow their business.<\/p>\n Besides, the industry will create employment opportunity for the local unemployed youths and skilled labourers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ Prafulla Kaman ] JONAI, 3 May: A tea manufacturing unit of Ashirvad Tea Industry of Assam’s Jonai has been set up at Jhanji village (Dekapam) near NH-515 in Assam’s Dhemaji district on Wednesday, much to the delight of the small tea growers of the Assam-Arunachal boundary area as they will now be able to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-215699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}