A 14-member delegation of the Indian tea industry would leave on Saturday for a five-day business trip to Pakistan via Dubai.
"We are going for hard selling. We will carry samples and hope to get substantial orders from Pakistan. We want to increase the tea sales to Pakistan from about 3.5 to 4 million kg at present to 15-20 million kg over a period," the Indian Tea Association's export committee chairman Gautam Bhalla of Warren Tea said in Kolkata on Friday.
It was a truly producer-led delegation with no representation from any government agency or merchant exporter, he said, adding that was why it was being organised by the ITA, the apex body of the tea producers in the country.
Bhalla said the ITA chairman Bharat Bajoria and he would lead the delegation that would be in Pakistan from June 29 to July three.
The other members of the delegation were from the Goodricke Group, Tata Tea, George Williamson, Eveready, Dibrugarh Tea, Hanuman Tea, Choibari Tea, Bajrang Tea and Doorma Chand Tea.