ochi: Tea planters across India are opposing the recommendation of the committee headed by O.P. Arya, additional secretary in the commerce ministry, to impose an additional excise duty of Re1 on packet tea to drum up funds to subsidize health, drinking water and education in the plantation sector..
Source link: http://www.livemint.com/2007/10/10003846/Extra-excise-tax-on-packet-tea.html
He even has his own cave for aging puerh, a Tibetan fermented tea. Packaging his precious leaves, he looks as goofily happy as a hippie bagging weed. .
Source link: http://starbulletin.com/2007/10/17/features/story01.html
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