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The Association was founded in 1881 to protect the interests of tea planters in British India and to promote the consumption of Indian tea. [ 1 ] : 96 It had offices in London and in India. [ 1 ] : 96 It also laid down rules for the recruitment of labour for the plantations and in the early twentieth century attempted to raise the standards of ...
India's tea industry is the fourth largest in the world, producing $709,000,000 worth of tea. [13] As of 2013 the consumption of green tea in India was growing by over 50% a year. [14] The major tea-producing states in India are: Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Sikkim, Nagaland. [15]
India was the top producer of tea for nearly a century, but recently China has overtaken India as the top tea producer due to increased land availability. [15] Indian tea companies have acquired a number of iconic foreign tea enterprises including British brands Tetley and Typhoo. [15] India is also the world's largest tea-drinking nation. [15]
McLeod Russel India Ltd is an Indian tea company. It is currently the world's largest tea growing company. [1]It is part of the Williamson Magor Group.It has Thirty One tea estates in the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam and Two in the Dooars region of West Bengal, three factories in Vietnam and six estates in Uganda.
The textbooks are in color-print and are among the least expensive books in Indian book stores. [11] Textbooks created by private publishers are priced higher than those of NCERT. [ 11 ] According to a government policy decision in 2017, the NCERT will have the exclusive task of publishing central textbooks from 2018, and the role of CBSE will ...
Tea Board of India's Head Office at B.B.D. Bagh, Kolkata. The Tea Board of India is a state agency of the Government of India under the control of Ministry of Commerce and Industry, established to promote the cultivation, processing, and domestic trade as well as export of tea from India.
Time for Tea: Women, Labor and Post-colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation (2011) is a post-colonial feminist ethnographic critique of labour practices in Indian tea plantations. Through personal interviews, anecdotes and a play, Piya Chatterjee examines the role gender, class, and race play in the production, consumption and circulation of tea.
The Tea-garden community is a term for a multiethnic, multicultural group of tea garden workers and their descendants in Northeast India (formerly the Assam province). They are primarily concentrated in the modern state of Assam , where they have been notified as Other Backward Classes (OBC) and are loosely referred to as Tea Tribes .