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Small tea growers can upload their offering of green tea leaves while buyers — mainly organized tea gardens and bought leaf tea factories — can evaluate the offers and make their bids. "Assam has 1.34 lakh small tea growers who, on an average, produce 820 million kg green tea leaves annually. DIBRUGARH: In a first, a mobile application for the state's small tea growers was launched here on Monday.Small Tea Leaf Exchange, the brainchild of prominent tea planter Suresh Varma, will facilitate direct transactions between buyers and sellers. It will resolve the pricing issues and transportation problems that small tea growers usually face while selling green tea leaves. Tea growers holding less than 10.12 hectares of 25 acres of plantation land are categorized as small tea growers.One of the problems tea growers in the state face is that of the minimum benchmark price of green tea leaves..