The Arunachal Pradesh Government is giving special thrust to creating gainful employment opportunities for youths especially in tea and rubber plantation schemes.

Chief Minister, Mr Nabam Tuki, who convened a meeting here yesterday to create a separate Tea and Rubber Board, asked the departmental officials to expedite the process to facilitate the interested youths take up horticulture and cash crop farming.

He also urged the officials to prepare feasible plans and formulate it for execution in the current financial year, official source said here today.

Mr Tuki sought to encourage progressive farmers who have been growing tea in their respective areas with their own limited resources. He asked the department of trade and commerce, which is the nodal department for encouraging cash crops, to prepare a prospective tea road map for Arunachal Pradesh for the beneficiaries.

He advocated establishing a branch office of Tea Board in the State Capital so that small tea growers can avail benefits from such institutions.

Jhum cultivation

Taking serious note of the practice of jhum cultivation in the State, the Chief Minister stressed the need for converting the jhum lands into organic tea cultivation fields.

“The areas already used for jhum cultivation may be converted into organic tea cultivation fields with suitable plan,” Tuki told officials of the concerned department, sources said.

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