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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]
Kolukkumalai is a small village/hamlet in Bodinayakanur Taluk in the Theni district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. [1] It is home to the highest tea plantation in the world with the tea grown here possessing a special flavour and freshness because of the high altitude.
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.
The rapid growth of the tea industry from the earliest days inspired planters to try out tea cultivation in the adjoining Terai region and James White set up the first Terai plantation in 1862 at Champta, the first Dooars garden came up at Gazalduba and by 1876, the area had 13 plantations. The altitude in the tea-growing areas of the Dooars ...
World map of tea exporters and importers, 1907. Chinese small-leaf-type tea was introduced into India in 1836 by the British in an attempt to break the Chinese monopoly on tea. [51] In 1841, Archibald Campbell brought seeds of Chinese tea from the Kumaun region and experimented with planting tea in Darjeeling.
More plantations were constructed in the 1880s and 1890s. In 1897, Kannan Devan Hills Produce Company was registered to operate the local tea plantations. [7] Following the Independence of India, this area remained in the hands of British enterprises.
Happy Valley Tea Estate is a tea garden in Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal.Established in 1854, it is Darjeeling's second oldest tea estate. Spread over 177 hectares (440 acres), it is situated at a height of 2,100 metres (6,900 ft) above sea level, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north of Darjeeling, and employs more than 1500 people.
It is the only tea garden in Sikkim and is considered one of the best in India and the world. [1] [2] [3] Top quality tea is produced, which is in demand in the international market. The garden is laid over a gradually sloping hill. The tea produced in this garden is also partly marketed under the trade name "Temi Tea". [1] [3] [4] [5]