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Seventy-six years ago, on July 16, 1949, the first tea auction in the region was held in Chattogram. That event marked the ...
Although now a quintessential part of British culture, English breakfast tea has more multicultural beginnings from the 1800s ...
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That comforting cup of ‘cha’ you hold in your hand hides a bitter history of colonial theft, exploitation and ongoing injustice in South Asia’s tea plantations ...
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India's tea prices have been soaring and are expected to stay high as heatwaves and floods during the peak harvesting season slash output in key producing regions.
Line shops (corner shops) in tea communities Assam, India help to reduce malnutrition and non-communicable diseases among tea workers by becoming "healthy line shops." ...
Women work at a tea estate in Nagaon, Assam File picture Assam tea’s 200-year-long journey will be showcased and celebrated at the Summer Fancy Food Show 2025 in New York, as part of efforts to ...
India's tea production in 2024 fell 7.8% from a year earlier to 1284.78 million kg, on lower output in the top-producing north-eastern state of Assam, the state-run Tea Board said in a statement.
One wonders whether the British are misleading the world as to the true situation or are deceived themselves.” Not quite such a Wicked Ogre as Indian mothers tell their children he is.