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Rediscovery and reorientation of Assam’s tea garden management strategy toward small tea growers are overdue, said the Asian Development Bank. The Bank said this in its report on Assam as India’s Gateway to ASEAN, which builds on a vision to follow an outward-looking strategy and become a $75 billion economy by 2025. "The current strategy of selling CTC tea leads to low-value output in a highly competitive, commodity-led market. Investments in debottlenecking infrastructure and leveraging the small tea growers (STGs) of Assam can develop the entry into the high value global and Indian leaf tea market," it says
