A Study of Organic Tea Cultivation

Abstract

This study entitled A Study of Organic Tea Cultivation: A Case Study of Sankhejung VDC of Ilam District. This study has been based on both primary and secondary and qualitative as well as quantitative data. This study has followed exploratory and descriptive research design. The primary data have been collected from Sankhejung VDC of Ilam district and secondary data have been used in the background of the study and setting of the study area to know the impact of organic tea cultivation of district. This study has been done to find out the impact, present situation and problems faced by tea farmers. From the Ilam district was selected purposively. 140 hhs were found tea farmers among them 50 hhs were taken by using simple random sampling method under the probability sampling. The data have been collected systematically. The data were analyzed in two ways descriptive and analytical. Ms Excel program was used for analysis purpose. Diagram and graphs are used for the presentation of data in this study. This study has found that most of the organic tea farmers are interested to organic tea cultivation, many farmers has been attracted toward tea cultivation in the study area, tea growers and production has been increasing. In this study area out of 50 hhs 40 percentage households have 0-10 ha. land, 26 percentage households have 10-20 ha., 20 percentage have 20-30 ha., 10 percentage have 30-40 ha. and 4 percentage households have 40-50 ha. land. The study in this thesis farmers are facing many kinds of problems like was economic, marketing and transportation etc. Also, they are facing lots of challenges in tea garden. Desertification, soil erosion, landslide, flood are main challenges in the cultivated area. In this study area farmers are interviewed in tea farming, they are trying to solve the problems but that's not enough so in this situation it we provide to technical knowledge, financial support, training etc. Its helps to improve their life style as well can play important role for the economic development for our country.