TEA EST. III

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The project would consist of the rehabilitation of about 21,000 ha of existing tea plantings and new planting of 2,300 ha of tea and 1,100 ha of cinchona, as well as improvement of transport facilities and labor housing, and re-equipping, reconstructing and expanding tea factories, on twenty-six estates in the government-owned PNP XII and PNP XIII estate groups. Technical assistance would be furnished through a consultancy organization to strengthen estate management and operation by providing an estate and factory Inspection Service for at least five years, and resident financial, agricultural and estate management Advisors for at least two years. They would help re-establish modern tea cultivation and processing methods. A tea research center would be established with the assistance of two tea reasearch specialists. The Credit would also finance the training overseas of key local staff. A survey of the presently run-down and inefficient smallholdings and private tea estates would be carried out under the project, with a view to recommending improvements and formulating rehabilitation projects.