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How does the Uttarakhand state government utilize the Tea Development Board to revive and expand tea cultivation in specific hill districts like Almora, Pauri, and Bageshwar?
A. By establishing state-owned tea gardens, providing planting material, and offering technical support to farmers to promote orthodox tea production✓ Correct Answer
B. By converting all tea estates into heavy manufacturing automobile factories
C. By banning tea consumption across all government offices
D. By imposing punitive tariffs on tea exports leaving the state
💡 Solution & Explanation
The Uttarakhand Tea Development Board promotes organic orthodox tea cultivation in traditional hill districts by organizing farmers into cooperatives, providing quality saplings, and setting up processing factories. This initiative revives historical tea estates established during the colonial era and creates rural livelihoods. High-grade organic tea produced in the state finds niche domestic and international markets.
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