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Government support is needed for organic tea production to thrive in India, Babu says.
In coming years, India's tea production is expected to be in surplus and domestic consumption stagnant.
Their area has a long history as a centre of tea production.
He said that as farmers planted more tea, production doubled from 2006 to 2007, to 100,000 tons.
Tea production employs 20,000 pickers in Kericho, most of whom also take accommodation provided on-site.
The first picking accounts for only 10 percent of annual tea production in Assam, the newspaper reported.
The history of these volcanic eruptions goes back to the British colonial desire for greater profits from Assam, a historic center of tea production.
Yet despite the roadblocks, organic tea production could be moving closer to the norm in a country that produces more tea than any other except China.
There are no signs yet that such measures are helping, and the story is much the same for those down the tea production chain.
But the lower prices are dooming many tea plantations in Assam, which accounts for more than half of India's tea production.
