Archive · 11 Dec 2025
Tea Board Mandates Ballometric Method for Leaf Trade
The Tea Board has told tea manufacturers to use a special method called the ballometric method to measure the quality of tea leaves.
This is to make sure that small tea growers get fair prices for their leaves.
The manufacturers and growers will both sign a register to keep track of the sales.
The Tea Board will check these registers to make sure everything is fair.
The price of green leaves has been very low, which has made the small growers unhappy.
The Tea Board says this new method will help fix the problem and make the tea trade better.
Tea Board mandates ballometric method for measuring green leaf quality.
Manufacturers must maintain a register with supplier details and leaf quantities.
Both manufacturers and suppliers must sign the register for transparency.
Low green leaf prices have caused hardship for small tea growers.
Tea Board will inspect registers regularly to ensure compliance.
- Who
- Tea Board, tea manufacturers, small tea growers
- What
- Mandate to use ballometric method for green leaf trade
- When
- December 11
- Where
- Guwahati
- Why
- To ensure transparency and remunerative prices for green leaf
- Organization
- Tea Board
- Issue
- Transparency in green leaf trade
- Method
- Ballometric method
- Stakeholders
- Tea manufacturers and small growers
- Purpose
- Ensure remunerative prices for green leaf
- Location
- Guwahati
- Date
- December 11
- Current Green Leaf Price
- Rs 11