Speaker of Assam Legislative Assembly H N Goswami has inaugurated the Jorhat e-auction platform for tea launched by the Tea Board of India. He said with the launch of the e-auction platform, the board has fulfilled a long-felt need of tea producing districts of Assam.
“I sincerely express my gratitude to the Tea Board of India for addressing the long-pending demand of the people of upper Assam in general and Jorhat in particular,” Goswami said.
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The first tea auction centre in Assam was set up in Guwahati in 1970.
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“In these last 50 years, the tea production of Assam increased three times and hence the people of Upper Assam and the Assam-based tea associations demanded a new age auction centre at Jorhat,” Goswami said.
Assam produces about 716 million kg of tea annually, accounting for 52 per cent of the country’s production.Six contiguous districts of Assam — Golaghat, Jorhat, Sivasagar, Charaideo, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia — produce about 450 million kg of tea annually.
The Jorhat e-auction platform is an initiative of the Tea Board of India and M-junction services is the implementing agency. Mjunction is a B2B e-commerce company promoted by SAIL and Tata Steel as a 50:50 venture.
With Jorhat, there are now eight tea auction centres in the country. The other seven are Kolkata, Siliguri, Jalpaiguri, Guwahati, Coimbatore, Coonoor and Kochi.
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