Tea: Technological Initiatives
Contents: 1. Story of Darjeeling Tea: a historical background/Sangmu Thendup and Sushma Rai. 2. Small farmers: locating them in “Darjeeling Tea”/Roshan P. Rai. 3. Human resource strategies for sustainable development of tea plantation workers in India/Ananda Das Gupta. 4. The science and practice of tea pruning and tipping in North East India/S. Baisya. 5. Pesticide resistance in insect and mite pests of tea in sub–Himalayan Terai–Dooars plantations: status, detection and possible management/Ananda Mukhopadhyay, Somnath Roy, Soma Das, Kumar Basnet. 6. Pests of tea: overview and possibilities of integrated pest management in Indian tea scenario/Somnath Roy, Narayanan Nair Muraleedharan and Gautam Handique. 7. Tea research for Darjeeling tea industry - various aspects/Anil Kumar Singh, J.S. Bisen, R.K. Chauhan, Mrityunjay Choubey, R. Kumar and N. Kumar. 8. The flavour of tea: chemistry and advanced analysis/Prosenjit Biswas and Biswajit Bera. 9. Health benefits of tea and environmental impacts of its cultivation/Jigisha Anand and Nishant Rai. 10. Biotechnology of tea/Mainaak Mukhopadhyay and Tapan Kumar Mondal.
The book a consortium and provides adequate information derived from current research on tea and opens up new avenues for researchers as well as service for the tea growers, and offers solutions of persistent problems for policy makers. Colour photographs, useful diagrams have also been reproduced. This book has 10 chapters on VII different aspects. The first part deals with basic aspects on history and introduction with special reference to Darjeeling tea. Part II is devoted to the role of Small Tea Growers in Indian tea. The third part deals with Cultivation Practices. The forth part describes one of the important aspects of tea cultivation i.e., “Insect Pest Management and Pesticide Residue” in length. The part five describes research on Darjeeling tea and it’s contribution and impact. The part sixth describes health benefit of tea. Finally part seven deals with biotechnology on tea.
