Tea Board to issue ID cards with QR codes for Assam small tea

Press Trust of India  |  Kolkata 

The Board has initiated the process of issuing identity cards with QR codes for the first time in the industry for small growers of which had been their long-standing demand. The Board has so far collected records of 88,000 small growers of and provided nearly 75,000 ID cards to them. The ID cards with QR codes would be used for buying and selling of green leaf from the small growers by use of a mobile App, the Board said in a statement here. Bought leaf factories (BLFs) would be able to buy from the small growers by use of the same App. In the process, the with the ID card of individual growers would be used to capture the growers' details and the data so generated would be used to analyse the leaf details, the quantity and quality received by each factory, it said.

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First Published: Thu, January 25 2018. 16:10 IST