A Rs 56.89 crore budget for the Environment Department of West Bengal government was passed in the state Assembly today. Placing the budget proposal, state Environment Minister Dr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar said the budget allocation has been raised three-fold from Rs 18 crore in 2010-11 to Rs 56.89 crore in …
your morning cup of Darjeeling tea could be lemon or honey flavoured. It could also be pesticide flavoured. That is because the tea estates in Darjeeling continue to use large amounts of pesticides to increase production. In turn, they perpetuate potential health hazards for the estate workers and the consumers, …
the world-famous Darjeeling tea will now have a certification trade mark ( ctm ) scheme. According to the Tea Board this is another step forward for the Darjeeling logo scheme launched some years ago. Announcing this at a news conference, Tea Board chairperson S S Ahuja said, "in the new …
makaibari tea estate, three kilometres off Kurseong town in Darjeeling, is probably one of the few tea gardens in the district that can boast of having a greater percentage of land under forest than tea. It is one man's vision that has catapulted the decades-old plantation into a biodiversity-rich environmental …
THE Darjeeling tea industry is battling for survival after witnessing record low harvest in 1997. According to the Darjeeling Planters' Association (DPA), the apex body of tea growers, due to continues cloud cover and incessant rainfall, the production of tea during July and August has fallen by 40 per cent …
market forces, rather than ecological concern, have prompted some of the owners of the Darjeeling tea gardens to turn bio-organic. Germany, which is the largest buyer of Darjeeling tea, threatened to discontinue buying tea as they felt that the pesticide residual content in the tea produced in Darjeeling is above …
