Though India will be nowhere near the playing arena in Brazil during the World Cup, tea from the famous Darjeeling garden of Makaibari will kick off the mornings for the players, guests and VIPs of the tournament. Brazil World Cup 2014 to kick off with Darjeeling tea The Makaibari Tea Estate, located in Kurseong (around […]
Darjeeling tea suffers crop loss of 40% due to scanty rainfall
The Darjeeling tea industry has raised concern over scanty rainfall in the past few months, which has resulted in a drought like situation. “There have been wild fires in Norbung, Ambutia and Sepoydhura tea estates owing to the extended dry spell. This year rainfall is down by 37 % which has resulted in crop loss […]
29th Starvation Related Death from Red Bank T.E, Dooars
Dooars: In another incident of death from malnutrition, Sunita Oraon (55), a garden worker and resident of No. 3 Raliway Division Line, died today. Since the closure of the garden on October 19, 2013, as many as 19 workers have died. The three currently locked out tea gardens owned by the Red Bank group, namely […]
Darjeeling tea denies justice to its labours
Seven o’clock in the morning, the winter winds hitting hard and pronounced as labours of the tea industry in Darjeeling are reporting for duty. Women labours carry a Doko (a basket to put the plucked tea leaves), some with their new born babies chugs along the lusty tea bushes waiting to be plucked and sold […]
British spy smuggled famous Darjeeling Tea from China in 1848 – Malcolm Ferris-Lay
Darjeeling Tea history – British tea expert Malcolm Ferris-Lay narrated a history of intrigue and industrial espionage in 1848 when the East India Co. sent a spy to China to smuggle out tea plants. These were later planted in Darjeeling and came to be globally famous as the unique “Darjeeling Tea”. Tea Planter with Tea […]
