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In 1826, the British East India Company took over the region from the Ahom kings through the Treaty of Yandabo. In 1837, the first English tea garden was established at Chabua in Upper Assam; in 1840, the Assam Tea Company began the commercial production of tea in the region, run by indentured servitude of the local inhabitants. Beginning in ...
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]
The state of Assam is the world's largest tea-growing region by production, lying on either side of the Brahmaputra River, and bordering Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and very close to China. This part of India experiences high rainfall; during the monsoon period, as much as 250 to 300 mm (10 to 12 in) of rain falls per day.
When the British were exploring for prospective areas to grow tea in India, the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region appeared to be one of the possible sites. Located at altitudes ranging from 600 to 2,000 metres (2,000 to 6,600 ft) and having an annual average rainfall of around 309 centimetres (122 in), it had the advantage of locational climate and soil conditions.
Kangra, a tea-growing region in India, known for its green tea production. India was the top producer of tea for nearly a century but was displaced by China as the top tea producer in the 21st century. [44] Indian tea companies have acquired a number of iconic foreign tea enterprises including British brand Tetley. [44]
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.
[5] [6] Tea gardens in the Dooars and Terai regions produce 226 million kg or over a quarter of India's total tea crop. [7] [8] Some tea gardens were identified in the 2011 census as census towns or villages. [9] Such places are marked in the map as CT (census town) or R (rural/ urban centre). Specific tea estate pages are marked TE.
[5] [6] Tea gardens in the Dooars and Terai regions produce 226 million kg or over a quarter of India's total tea crop. [7] [8] Some tea gardens were identified in the 2011 census as census towns or villages. [9] Such places are marked in the map as CT (census town) or R (rural/ urban centre). Specific tea estate pages are marked TE.