Small tea growers in West Bengal contribute approximately 62% of the state's total tea production. Although the state has nearly 50,000 small tea gardens, only 7,321 of them are legal.
In some good news for small tea gardens, the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government has issued two notifications, paving the way for the legalization of about 43,000 small tea plantations, Indian media reported on Wednesday.
The plantations emerged illegally on private and government lands in northern Bengal between 2001 and 2017.
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