Assam Tea Industries Special Incentive Scheme (ATISIS)
Context
- Recently, Assam Tea Industries Special Incentive Scheme (ATISIS) was launched.
About
- To establish a balance between the production of CTC tea and orthodox variety.
- Under the ATISIS, the state government will provide interest subvention of three per cent per annum on working capital loan and subsidy of Rs 7 per kg for production of orthodox and speciality varieties.
Orthodox Tea and CTC
- Orthodox tea refers to the tea which is made or processed using traditional method.
- Orthodox teas are generally bright and brisk and have a multilayered flavor profile.
- They are produced using the traditional methods of Tea production which includes plucking, withering , rolling, oxidation and drying.
- Orthodox and speciality tea currently account for about 11 per cent of the state's annual production, and the rest is of CTC variety.
- Crush, tear, curl (CTC) is a method of processing black tea in which the leaves are passed through a series of cylindrical rollers with hundreds of sharp teeth that crush, tear, and curl the tea into small, hard pellets.
- This replaces the final stage of orthodox tea manufacture, in which the leaves are rolled into strips.
- Tea produced using this method is generally called CTC tea or mamri tea.
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