TEA BOARD
TEA BOARD The Tea Board was constituted as a Statutory Body on April 1, 1954 under Section (4) of the Tea Act, 1953. The Board is headed by a chairman with head office at Kolkata. As an apex body for the tea industry in India, the Board has two zonal offices at Guwahati and Coonoor and 13 regional offices spread over different parts of India, one research centre at Kurseong (Darjeeling) and three foreign offices in London, Moscow and Dubai. The primary functions of the Board include rendering financial and technical assistance for cultivation, manufacture, marketing of tea; promoting tea exports; aiding research and developmental activities for augmentation of tea production and improvement of tea quality; encouraging and assisting the unorganized small growers sector financially and technically and collecting and maintaining statistical data and its publication for the benefit of growers, processors and exporters. Its logo has in dark green centre with tea buds in black and whi