02093nam a22001937a 4500 39707 39707 9783031518119 eng 338.173720954 HAN-S Hannan, Abdul author The smallholder tea economy and regional development : Perspective from India / Abdul Hannan Switzerland : Springer, 2024. xxiv, 160p. Hardcover Includes bibliographical references. This book discusses the smallholder tea economy and regional development opportunities in India. It first gives a conceptual overview of Plantations and Smallholders in the Tea Economy including some comparisons and examples from Smallholders tea development in Afro-Asian countries like Sri Lanka, Kenya, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia. The spatiotemporal analysis of the growth and development of smallholders in India and its tea producing states is then analyzed in more detail with highlights on the production, tea area, estimated employment, livelihood pattern, and market structure in relation to government policies and programmes. Two major tea producing states of India, i.e., Assam and West Bengal are then discussed in more detail (farm size, land relations, and trade relations between Bought Leaf Factories and Smallholders in both the states along with some bottom-up development initiatives). In these regions, smallholders have emerged as sizable presences in the tea industry in 1990s. In a next step, the growth of Industrial Development Cooperative (INDCO) Tea Factories in Nilgiris of Tamil Nadu in the Post-Reform period is analyzed. The introduction and growth of SHG model in plantations by Tea Board in India and their success stories, as well as the policies like Tea Marketing Control Order, 2003 and 2015 are examined and analyzed. The book concludes with the policy suggestions and an in-depth analysis of alternatives to overcome the current crisis. Rural development India Small farms Economic aspects India Agriculture Cooperative India ddc BK 0 0 0 0 NASSDOC NASSDOC 2024-12-02 Gratis 0.00 NA 0 338.173720954 HAN-S 54802 2025-05-09 00:00:00 139.99 2024-12-02 BK