Founded 1881 | Website indiatea.org | |
Location Kolkata
Guwahati
Jorhat
Tezpur
Dibrugarh
Binnaguri
Silchar
Bagdogra
Darjeeling | ||
The Indian Tea Association is a trade association of Indian tea producers. The head office is in Kolkata (Calcutta).
History
The association was founded in 1881 to protect the interests of tea planters in British India and to promote the consumption of Indian tea.:96 It had offices in London and in India.:96 It also laid down rules for the recruitment of labour for the plantations and in the early twentieth century attempted to raise the standards of treatment of labourers.:75
References
Indian Tea Association Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA