Tea Research Association jobs for Project Assistant Agriculture in Guwahati. Last Date to apply: 02 Jun 2017
Job Description
Ref: TOK/X21/17/ 427 19th May 2017
Project Assistant Agriculture job position in Tea Research Association on contractual basis
Project Title : “Tea Genome Sequencing”
No. of Post : 02
Educational Qualification: 2nd class B.Sc degree in
Agriculture/Botany/Biotechnology.
Remuneration: Rs. 15000+15% HRA
Duration of the project: Two Years
Job Particulars
About Company
Organised research in tea started in India as early as 1891 when a Joint Committee of the Indian Tea Association (ITA) and the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Bengal appointed Mr. M. Kelway Bamber, a Chemist. Till then all important contributions towards growth of tea industrywere the results of untiring personal efforts of pioneers who had to struggle against heavy odds. Mr Bamber initiated work on chemistry of tea, soils and manures in an effort to understand the chemical basis of tea quality. The findings of this work were published in his book “The Chemistry and Agriculture of Tea including Growth and Manufacture” in 1893. The ITA then assigned Dr.George Watt, Entomologist, Govt of India the task of investigating the subject of Tea Blight and the potential of the plant Adhatoda vasica as an insecticide against tea pests.
