There is a lot that Darjeeling could learn from Champagne when it comes to protecting its legacy. As the 37 odd estates in the Himalayan foothills gear up to educate the world about their authentic ...
Darjeeling tea production may fall to a new low in 2025 as erratic weather, labour shortages and rising costs hit gardens, ...
I must admit I have dunked a tea bag into hot water and called it tea. I have even made Darjeeling tea, sometimes called the champagne of teas, from a tea bag. For tea gurus like Anindyo Choudhury, ...
Darjeeling has 87 tea gardens spread across roughly 19,000 hectares, employing about 52,000 permanent workers. Around 200,000 families are dependant on the wages of these garden workers. Another ...
On December 7th tea estates in Darjeeling, a hill station in West Bengal straddling India’s border with Nepal, will carry out the final full-moon harvest of the year. Illuminated by fire-lit torches ...
Early this month, during the annual general meeting of the Indian Tea Association (ITA) in Kolkata, the Tea Board of India said it had sought a special financial package of ₹1,000 crore from the ...
Siliguri/Kolkata: Raising concerns over the mixing of Darjeeling tea with other low-quality teas, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday that the state would set up a lab to check these occurrences."We are ...
In the last three years, 20 gardens have changed hands, and 90 per cent of the buyers are from non-tea background. IMAGE: A worker gathers tea leaves at the Happy Valley tea garden estate in ...
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