Improve quality of tea to keep pace with global market, says Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishanan

Vice-President of India C.P. Radhakrishnan appealed to the United Planters’ Association of Southern India (UPASI) to expand their research into improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of tea.

Mr. Radhakrishnan was the chief guest at the three-day UPASI Tea Research Foundation (TRF) centenary conference that started in Coonoor on Monday. At the event, he said that with global competition on the increase, it was imperative that tea research institutes, with the help of State and Central governments, improve the quality of their teas to keep pace with the global market.

“Nowadays, even a small country like Sri Lanka is giving us very tough competition in the international market,” he said, adding that solutions must be found to improve the revenue of tea and tea plantations.