What are the career prospects in tea management?

Question:What kind of a field is Tea management? Also, elaborate on institutes providing its training?

Hammad Ahmed, R. S. College, Bihar

Answer: India is the leading producer of tea. Not only in domestic market, but there is a large-scale consumption of Indian tea across the world. Therefore, all kinds of career options are available in tea industry starting from care and maintenance of tea gardens to professions such as management and exporters. A degree in BSc (Botany) or food science or horticulture could be very useful for entering into this field. Based on this, jobs can be found in different tea gardens, tea boards and tea exporter and vendor companies.

Some of the major institutes offering courses in tea management includes-- Assam Agricultural University, Department Of Tea Husbandry And Technology, Jorhat, Indian Institute Of Plantations Management, NITM, Darjeeling Tea Research And Management Association (Darjeeling), Assam Darjeeling Tea Research Centre (Darjeeling), Upasi Tea Research Institute (Valparai, Tamil Nadu), the Tea Tester Academy (Kunnur, Nilgiri, Kerala) etc.