| 'Tea coin' from Assam the latest fad in Canada
Guwahati, Sep 15 (IANS) Tea coin is the latest fad in Canada - dip the coin in hot water and drink your steaming cup of tea, that too without any fears of pesticide residues. The latest value addition to the beverage is the tea coin - two grams of garden fresh organic tea packed in coin shape and then marketed in Canada. And the manufacturers of the much in demand coin are the Singphos of eastern Assam's Margherita area. The Singphos are a tribal community who are believed to have first discovered and drank tea much before the Bruce brothers, Robert and Charles, made public their discovery in 1823 of spotting tea bushes in Assam. Produced in a 15-hectare area involving about 200 local tribal people, the organic tea manufactured under the banner of Singpho Agro Products is packaged in bamboo containers that look like coins.
AMA set to bounce back: Gumbo
GOVERNMENT is set to re-establish the Agricultural Marketing Authority once the exercise to put in place various parastatal boards has been completed, a Cabinet minister has said.
In a speech read on his behalf at the 13th annual congress of the Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers' Union in Mutare recently, Agriculture Minister Mr Rugare Gumbo said as soon as candidates for the boards of five other parastatals were appointed, AMA would bounce back.
The parastatals are Agribank, Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board, Tobacco Research Board, the Pig Industry Board and the Agricultural Research Council.
Over the past few months and in measures intended to revive the performance of parastatals, Government has appoint-ed boards for the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority led by Dr Tobias Takavarasha, the Grain Marketing Board headed by Mr Charles Chikaura and the Cold Storage Company under the leadership of Professor Lindela Ndlovu.
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