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View of tea plantations in Munnar Lockhart Tea Factory in Munnar Tata Tea Museum in Munnar Cherry Resort inside Temi Tea Garden, Namchi, Sikkim Tea plantation in Palampur, Himachal Pradesh Darjeeling tea plantations on hills, Darjeeling. India's tea industry is the fourth largest in the world, producing $709,000,000 worth of tea. [13]
Darjeeling tea plantations, Darjeeling. Masala Chai kettles of a street vendor in Varanasi, India. Cooking Indian tea or Chai using a regular sauce pan in the US. India is the second largest producer of tea in the world after China, [1] including the famous Assam tea and Darjeeling tea. Tea is the 'State Drink' of Assam.
Tea plantations in the region are spread over 97,280 hectares (240,400 acres). The region produces 226 million kg of tea, accounting for about a quarter of India’s total tea crop. [1] There are 154 gardens in the Dooars out of 283 tea gardens in north Bengal that employ 3.5 lakh workers. [4]
[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.
Makaibari tea fetches around Rs. 3,000 per kg. In 2017, a special pack of 5 kg of first flush handcrafted Darjeeling tea from Makaibari fetched the highest ever price for any first flush tea at $302 (Rs. 21,746) per kg. While tea connoisseurs in Europe prefer first flush tea those in UK and Japan prefer second flush tea.
It was amongst the first tea estates established by the British tea planters in the 1850s and is the second largest Darjeeling Tea producer in India. [8] The Darjeeling Tea Company of England established Ambootia Tea Garden in 1861 and was taken over by Indian entrepreneurs in 1954 after India attained independence in 1947. When the Bansal Tea ...
As of 2001 India census, [10] Puttabong Tea Estate had a population of 1633. Males constituted 49% of the population and females 51%. Males constituted 49% of the population and females 51%. Puttabong Tea Estate has an average literacy rate of 75%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 84%, and female literacy is 66%.
The history of present Elappara begins in 1836 with the clearing of the Vembanadu region by Henry Baker, a C.M.S. missionary. The first estate to start the tea industry in high-range was the Tyford estate and the first plantation Penshwarast - both of which are situated in Elappara panchayath.