To create ample business opportunities and amplify growth in the tea, coffee, spices and rubber sectors, the Commerce & Industry Ministry is proposing the introduction of new legislation. With this decision, the decades-old laws will be repealed. Four draft bills have been created for this purpose – Spices (Promotion and Development) Bill, 2022; Rubber (Promotion and Development) Bill, 2022; Coffee (Promotion and Development) Bill, 2022; Tea (Promotion and Development) Bill, 2022.
As per the website of the MOCI, “The legal regime has to be enabled to address several areas of modern functions of the tea board namely, support for production, quality improvement, promotion of tea and skill development of tea growers. Many of these activities were originally not included in the mandate of the tea board, but now need to be incorporated into its functions and powers.”
Providing focused attention across the entire supply chain of spices and the food safety requirements necessitates the amendment of the existing Spices Board Act, 1986.
“It has become imperative to remove archaic provisions, create an environment conducive for easy conduct of business, reorient functions of the (Rubber) Board with equal focus on upstream and downstream sectors and to contribute towards making world-class rubber industry,” the draft Rubber (Promotion and Development) Bill, 2022, said.
The rationale behind enacting the Coffee Bill is to enable support for production, research, quality improvement, promotion of coffee and skill development of the growers.
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