Tea is one of the important perennial commercial crops. As a popular drink for people around the world, tea demand has been increasing over the years. The increased demand for tea has to be met by increased production. Since the increased production is not possible by continuous area expansion under cultivation, the increased output must come from the productivity expansion per unit of land. Productivity expansion is possible by first identifying several problems hindering it and then framing suitable policy decisions to remove all those problems, specially in major tea growing regions. The...