The corporation took up tea plantation on commercial basis from 1982 at Manipur Tea Estate near Jiribam a border town of the state connecting Cachar district of Assam. The plantation covered an area of about 300 hectares of land against the target of 425 hectares.

The tea garden started selling green leaves to Jirighat Tea Estate in Assam from 1985, at the rate of Rs 1.75 per kg, but prices of finished tea for every kg of green leaves now fetches Rs 7.

The corporation started construction of tea factory at Jiribam-based Manipur Tea Estate on a turn-key basis in three phases to produce around 3 lakh kg of finished tea in the first phase and 6 lakh kg in second phase and 10 lakh kg of finished product per annum in the final phase when 425 hectares are fully brought under plantation.