Darjeeling tea production may fall to a new low in 2025 as erratic weather, labour shortages and rising costs hit gardens, with January-November output at 5.19 million kg, Tea Board data show ...

Muscatel flavour, hand-plucked leaves, and India’s very first GI tag: here is what makes Darjeeling tea truly irreplaceable ...

West Asia crisis is reverberating across India’s economy, tightening energy supplies, raising crude and refining costs and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every year, when it’s time for the year’s spring harvest, my thoughts turn to Darjeeling. Lately, these come with a lingering anxiety and a growing despondence. In the years that I have made my ...

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 ...

In the absence of recognition from the Tea Board, these small farmers are selling their produce to international and domestic buyers whose are not looking for the Darjeeling Tea tag According to the ...