According to the association, partnership firms are union of individuals generally consitsing members of the same family.
Likewise, faced with increasing labour shortage and cost, the sector, which believes mechanisation of estate operations is the best way to combat its problems, has sought extension of schemes and subsidies provided to the cooperative and corporate sector to coffee planters.
According to Chairman Sahadev Balakrishna, new generation’s “attraction” to cities and government-sponsored MGNREGS were key reasons for labour scarcity in the plantation sector.
It has urged the Centre to enhance rate of subsidy and open up the schemes to all categories of growers, includingcooperative and corporate sector, during the 12th Plan (2012-2017). Balakrishna said, with scarcity of labour, plantations had no option but to go for mechanisation of of certain coffee estate operations.
Published 08 November 2011, 15:11 IST