INTRODUCTION ::                            

The All Assam Small Tea Growers' Association was registered in the year 1987.
AASTGA has brought in a green revolution in rural Assam by cultivating tea in
unutilized and underutilized uplands and thus bringing huge socio-economic changes
in Assam. In the last two decades, the number of small tea growers have swelled to an
stounding number of 65000.
          Almost 9 lakh people are engaged directly and indirectly in this Association.
Around 2.5 lakh hectares of land has been covered by the Small Tea Growers.
The members of AASTGA has been contributing about 29% of the total tea produced
by Assam which is approximately 14% of the total tea production of India.
          Small Tea Growers of Assam are playing a vital economic role in the
National Tea Industrial scene ...



DISTRICTS OF ASSAM HAVING SMALL TEA PLANTATIONS

 

Major Plantations                                          Minor Plantations

 

1.  Tinsukia                                                          1.  Morigaon

2.  Dibrugarh                                                        2.  Kamrup

3.  Sivasagar                                                         3.  Baksha

4.  Jorhat                                                             4.  Nalbari

5.  Golaghat                                                          5.  Barpeta

6.  Nagaon                                     

7.  Kokrajhar Anglong                                   

8.  Bongaigaon                                     

9.  Darrang                                     

10. Sonitpur                                     

11. Lakhimpur                                   

12. Dhemaji                                    

13. Udalguri                                     

14. Karbi Anglong