The facility proposed by the Tea Board of India, of installing rope trolleys to facilitate ferrying of plucked fresh loose leaves to factories, gets a fillip with a 40 per cent subsidy. This comes in a time when whether has spoilt the flavour of the Darjeeling Teas with production shortfalls spiraling since the Spring, earlier due to shortage of rain and now due to sporadic storms and cyclones which has widened the production gap as compared to previous years.
The facility of rope trolley would be allotted under the Field Mechanism Scheme, and help save the individual gardens on the exponential rise in costs of fuel as the freshly plucked leaves are presently ferried through small trucks and mules, which would also prove to be a quicker mode of transport.
With inflation on an all time high and world economy continually getting a thumbs down, this Darjeeling Tea lover waits in anticipation for the upped flavour got from plucked leaves ferried through those trolleys.
Until then, enjoying the muscatel variety, still popular the world over.
(Courtesy: The Telegraph, 28.5.12)
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