Problems and prospects of small tea growers in Assam – A case study of Golaghat District Jaiswal Rajesh Associate Professor, Golaghat Commerce College, Golaghat, Assam, India. Research Scholar, Department of Commerce, Dibrugarh University, Assam. Online published on 3 November, 2012. Abstract Small tea growers of Assam, including the small tea growers of Golaghat district, are facing a large number of serious problems. Because of some legal lacunas, a large number of small tea growers of Assam, along with the tea growers of Golaghat district, are being deprived of getting benefits from different schemes of the Central Government. A large number of small tea growers of Golaghat district are not having their land holding certificates, for which they are not registered under the Tea Board. This situation prevails all over Assam. Consequently, government is not able to know the information relating to small tea sector of the State. On the other hand, due to the absence of factory of their own, the small tea growers of Golaghat district as well as the small tea growers all over Assam are being deprived of the genuine price of the green leaves produced by them. In this paper we try to study the problems that are being faced by the small tea sector- the highest generator of employment opportunities in this industrially backward state of India. Top Keywords Small Tea Growers, Bought leaf factories, Tea Board, Green leaf, Entrepreneurship etc. Top |