President of Tea Association of India Sandeep Singhania said that duty-free imports of cheap quality teas have increased ...

Scanty rainfall, last year's lockdown, growing competition from Nepal and the disaster of the 2017 Gorkhaland agitation are steadily weakening exports and sales of Darjeeling tea. IMAGE: A worker ...

Darjeeling tea, the first Indian product to get the Geographical Indication (GI) tag as early as 2004, has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. Many tea gardens are reportedly up for ...

I must admit I have dunked a tea bag into hot water and called it tea. I have even made Darjeeling tea, sometimes called the champagne of teas, from a tea bag. For tea gurus like Anindyo Choudhury, ...

Despite its complicated history, fame, and the growing global demand for fine teas, Darjeeling’s premier position in the trade is in peril, with a dangerous combination of factors bringing it to the ...

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 ...

The Darjeeling Tea industry wants the Centre to include Nepal tea on the list of items to be tested with India and Nepal having started discussions on establishing food laboratories at key trading ...