Supriya Sahu turned things around by improving quality and providing better prices for farmers. Picture Courtesy: Supriya Sahu with the INDCO-Tea ‘vandi’ in the Nilgiris. If you have ever been to Coonoor, it’s likely that you would have stopped at Bedford for a meal or to shop, or because it’s on the way to everywhere […]

Foods you should avoid having with tea If you are a tea lover, there is nothing more comforting than a piping hot cup of tea after a long tiring day. Be it morning, afternoon or evening, a cup of tea comforts you like a warm hug with each sip. Tea is such a popular drink […]

Read more at:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/82417613.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst Green tea push can lift India’s exports: Report Read more at:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/82417613.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst Kolkata: If India ramps up its green tea production, it will be able to boost its exports kitty and tap the US market at a cheaper cost, says a research report by Drip Capital which was exclusively shared with ToI. Only 2% of India’s tea exports comprise green […]

The positive test result and hospital orders to quarantine have been a logistical nightmare for the Nattos, who have spent the last 15 days holed up in a wood shed behind the two-room plantation house they share with their children. Workers live in cramped living quarters where measures to curb the virus’s spread are difficult […]

A tea garden path in Assam. Photo: nallin a/Flickr, CC BY 2.0.   A year ago, Mohan Tanti realised that the intense pain he had been suffering from for a while was due to kidney stones. Tanti lives and works at Letekujan, a tea plantation in Jorhat district in Assam, northeast India. To get treatment, […]

The Kenyan package included the country’s famed tea and coffee, besides groundnuts. The tea and coffee were meant to provide a ‘refreshing break’ to healthcare workers. New Delhi: There was a food of indignant comments on Twitter last week as Kenya shipped aid to India in solidarity with its battle against Covid-19. Almost all these comments sought […]

Guwahati, Assam, India – Gautam Sabar had been complaining of fever and headache for a week so on May 15, his son Gaurab Sabar took him to the in-house hospital at the Dimakuchi tea estate in northeast India’s Assam state. There was no doctor to attend to him and the health assistant present at the […]