{"id":74022,"date":"2026-06-17T16:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/?p=74022"},"modified":"2026-06-17T16:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:31:01","slug":"tea-industrialists-to-shut-down-tea-factories-from-tomorrow-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/06\/17\/74022\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea industrialists to shut down tea factories from tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>. KATHMANDU: Tea industrialists in Nepal have decided to shut down their factories and estates for an indefinite period from June 18, saying the Nepali tea industry is facing a serious crisis.\u00a0The tea industrialists here took the initiative after Nepali tea could not be exported to India due to the new standard operating procedure (SOP) enforced by the Tea Board of India. <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Shukra Dahal, general secretary of Nepal Tea Producers&#8217; Association, the tea produced in Nepal amounts to around Rs 12 billion to Rs 14 billion annually and of which around Rs 5 billion is exported to India.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Organising a press meet in Bhadrapur today, the Nepal Tea Producers Association Jhapa announced to shut down the tea industry and tea estates from tomorrow.<\/p>\n<div>Stating that tea could be exported to Bangladesh, Pakistan and other third countries as an alternative, Parajuli urged the government to take initiative for the export of tea. <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The tea sector employs around 60,<\/p>\n<div>000 workers and employees and pays Rs 1 billion in annual revenue. <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. KATHMANDU: Tea industrialists in Nepal have decided to shut down their factories and estates for an indefinite period from June 18, saying the Nepali tea industry is facing a serious crisis.\u00a0The tea industrialists here took the initiative after Nepali tea could not be exported to India due to the new standard operating procedure (SOP)<a href=\"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/06\/17\/74022\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Tea industrialists to shut down tea factories from tomorrow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,129,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-breaking-en","category-artha-khabar-business-en","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chiya.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74023,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74022\/revisions\/74023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/74021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}