Tea saplings at subsidised price

The Nilgiris district Horticulture Department will offer tea saplings at subsidised price to small and marginal farmers, says a release.

The Department will encourage farmers to establish tea gardens, and inter-crop tea gardens by offering saplings at 50 per cent cost or at Rs. 2 a sapling.

Subsidy

The Department has made available the saplings at the Government Horticulture Farm, Thummanatty, Doddapetta, Nanjanadu, Pollgrain, Fruit Centre, Coonoor, Devalla and Katteri. And, the farmers can get the subsidy for tea saplings by approaching the assistant directors of horticulture in their blocks or the assistant directors of agriculture or at the Horticulture Information Centre in Charring Cross.