The Tea Association of India has said coronavirus pandemic and floods have brought the “tea industry to its knees”. According to P.K. Bhattacharjee, TAI secretary general, the industry is...

The tea industry needs “disruption” or else it will not be able to survive, Indian Tea Association chairman Vivek Goenka said at the inauguration of the two-day Tocklai Tea Conference here on Frid...

The hand that held two leaves and a bud is trying out a pair of shears in the gardens of Darjeeling — possibly for the first time in 165 years.The steel blades are being wielded to pluck tealeaves t...

The first wave of floods has added to the woes of the Assam tea industry, which is already passing through an extremely bleak phase.A statement issued by the Assam Branch Indian Tea Association (Abita...

The Union home ministry has issued guidelines exempting the tea industry, including plantations with maximum of 50 per cent workers, from lockdown restrictions.This was issued as a fourth addendum to ...

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday said he would speak to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on reopening of markets in western part of the country where tea is sent from Assam and is now und...

The Tocklai Tea Research Institute will help the industry through a package of practices to be followed for recovery after prolonged closure.The 21-day lockout announced on Tuesday to contain the spre...

Brij Mohan Khaitan, who rose from a dingy lane of Burra Bazar in Calcutta to become the Burra Sahib of the Indian tea industry, is no more.Briju babu, as he was fondly called in business circles, died...

The Indian Tea Association’s (ITA) Surma Valley branch has expressed concern over the increase of production cost of tea up to 40 per cent, not commensurate with the rate of tea in market, in the pa...

The Assam tea industry has asked the state government to exempt it from paying agricultural income tax for three years.Different tea associations in pre-budget memorandums said agricultural income con...