Muscatel flavour, hand-plucked leaves, and India’s very first GI tag: here is what makes Darjeeling tea truly irreplaceable ...

Darjeeling tea production may fall to a new low in 2025 as erratic weather, labour shortages and rising costs hit gardens, with January-November output at 5.19 million kg, Tea Board data show ...

On December 7th tea estates in Darjeeling, a hill station in West Bengal straddling India’s border with Nepal, will carry out the final full-moon harvest of the year. Illuminated by fire-lit torches ...

West Asia crisis is reverberating across India’s economy, tightening energy supplies, raising crude and refining costs and ...

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 ...

In the absence of recognition from the Tea Board, these small farmers are selling their produce to international and domestic buyers whose are not looking for the Darjeeling Tea tag According to the ...

Every year, when it’s time for the year’s spring harvest, my thoughts turn to Darjeeling. Lately, these come with a lingering anxiety and a growing despondence. In the years that I have made my ...

Siliguri/Kolkata: Raising concerns over the mixing of Darjeeling tea with other low-quality teas, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday that the state would set up a lab to check these occurrences."We are ...

If you are a tea connoisseur, here's some bad news: your morning cuppa of steaming Darjeeling tea may soon be difficult to get. Famously called the "champagne of teas", it is grown in 87 gardens in ...