Bought Leaf Factory | Packaging Industry | Tea Plantation and Production

The total area under tea plantation estimated as at 2007 is 16400 hectares with the production volume of 152 million kgs. It is providing direct employment to 40 thousand people. The climatic conditions are suitable for Orthodox tea in hilly range and CTC (Crush-Tear-Curl) at Terai. Nepal has initiated producing export quality Green Tea.

 

ORTHODOX	C.T.C

Tea in the private sector comprises of small farmers, bought leaf factories and big Tea Estates with tea processing factories.

There are 140 Registered Tea Estate which contribute 85 % of the National's production volume. Nepal has 40 Tea processing factories in private sectors. They produce both orthodox and CTC Tea.

Bought Leaf Factories

Bought Leaf factories do not have their own Tea Plantation and depend on the small farmers for the green leaves to run their factories. Further a rapid increase in Tea area at small holders level is anticipated due to the market of their production.

Packaging Industry

Basically there are two kinds of tea packaging industries operating in Nepal. The first one being the private Estate owing tea packaging unit of itself and second are the ones who operate their Industry buying bulk from private tea estates and the tea imported from outside.

Tea Plantation & Production

Financial Year		Plantation (Hecars)	Production (Kilograms)
B.S	A.D
2051/52	1994/95	N/A	196403.00
2052/53	1995/96	N/A	2737329.00
2053/54	1996/97	3501.80	2905942.00
2054/55	1997/98	4515.00	3018571.00
2055/56	1998/99	10249.60	4492998.00
2056/57	1999/00	10249.60	5085237.00
2057/58	2000/01	11997.00	6638082.00
2058/59	2001/02	12346.00	7518575.00
2059/60	2002/03	12643.00	8198000.00
2060/61	2003/04	15012.00	11651204.00
2061/62	2004/05	15900.00	12606081.00
2062/63	2005/06	16000.00	13688237.00
2063/64	2006/07	16420.00	15167743.00
2064/65	2007/08	16594.00	16127490.00
2065/66	2008/09	16718.00	16208127.00

* Plantation Area and Production Tea Estate covers private sector and small Tea Holder's Area.