- Introduction of annual prune
- Improved pest control measures
- Drainage
- Clonal propagation of tea from single nodal cuttings Importance of legume as shade
- Release of TV1, TV2 and TV3
- Release of TV10, TVII. TV12. TV13. TV14, TV15, TV16 and TV17
- Release of a biclonal seed stock (under Stock 378) in the breeding scheme Nanda Devi for Darjeeling,
- Balanced NPK manuring
- Introduction of longer pruning cycle
- Leguminous shade tree
- Planting pattern and plant density
- Recommendation of herbicides
- Release of biclonal seed stocks 379, 462, 463, 464 and 491.
- Release of TV25. TV26, TV27 and TV28,
- Release of 30 garden series clones, 15 for the Dooars & Terai and 15 for Darjeeling
- Plant growth regulators for crop productivity Introduction of tissue culture in tea
- Introduction of polyploidy clones
- Irrigation and drainage
- Improved pest control methods through IPM
- Release of TV4, TV5, TV6, TV7. TV8 and TV9.
- Introduction of herbicides
- Standardisation of tipping level at 5 leaves
- . A new species of Camellia (Camellia irrawadiensis) was discovered at Tocklai, resembling teas in leaf
- appearance and can be easily crossed with tea.
- Release of TV18, TV19, TV20, TV21, TV22, TV23 and TV24, along with three biclonal seed stocks 449, 450
- and 397.
- Introduction of micronutrients
- Potash application basis
- Drainage improvement
- Young tea management
- Better pest control methods
- Release of a triploid clone TV29 and eight garden
- clones Development of a new method for filling of nursery sleeves .
- Biopesticides, Trichoderma, Package for Helopeltis control
- Drip irrigation
- Tissue culture technique New biclonal seeds and clones
- Establishment of pesticide residue testing laboratory Establishment of laboratory for heavy metal
- testing
- Conservation of tea germplasm.
- Release of rea cultivars, Lengree 51 and Lengree 56 for drought affected areas.
- Development of new cultivars under TV series. TV31 was released after multi-locational trials
- Innoduction of a new Anadenanthera peregrina, a new leguminous shade tree.
- Comparison of remote sensing imageries for five pilot areas with topographic map of 1912-13.
- Development of a new enriched vermicompost technology.
- Introduction of the VAM technology for tea nurseries.
- Beauveria Bassiana, an entomopathogenic fungus developed for of Helopeltis. Establishment of the
- Model Tea Factory at Tocklai for process optimisation.
- Cargorisation of clones based on withering and fermentation.
- Development of the Modified rolling table for Darjeeling. • Development of a process for producing the
- tea tablet.
- Development of a process for producing soft drinks based on tea by-products.
- Standardization in installation of low cost sticky traps to control thrips and jassids.
- Development of low cost light traps to control red slug and loopers.
- Integrated management of rea loopers. Release of two new clones (TTRII and TTRI II) and one new seed
- stock (TS560) for Darjeeling. TTRI I is drought
- tolerant, while TTRI II is moderately tolerant to drought.
- Submission of 10,200 Expressed Sequence Tags (EST) of drought, herbivory and blister blight to NCBI
- Amplified Fragment Length Polimorphism (AFLP) based genetic diversity assessment of 123
- commercially
- important tea germplasms of India. Development of Neem Kernel Aqueous Extraction technology for
- pest management.
- Development of ovipositional barriers for looper pest management.
- Development of coloured sticky traps for thrips, green hoopers and whitefly. Development and release
- of nutrient management packages for organically grown young tea and mature tea, under conversion
- Establishment of a Training & Research Centre for Small Tea Growers. • Establishment of a Tea Tourism
- Hub at Tocklai.
