Set amidst the vibrant, emerald hills of Sri Lanka’s central highlands, where waterfalls cascade down cliffs and clouds brush ...

Tea has long been associated with ritual. Japanese tea ceremonies are elaborate affairs, often lasting up to four hours, and ...

Though its tea factory, which produces CTC tea, had closed in 2005 due to financial issues, the estate was revived in 2007 under a new management and has since become a popular tourist destination.

But its tea workers are landless and the poorest, and live under a constant threat of forced displacement as they lack land and housing rights, their leaders say. Most worker-families live on the ...

The Nigiri’s has the highest tea estates in the world. “Our family ventured into tea sometime in the 1930s and started our first tea factory in 1943. I am currently the forth generation in tea.

The central government has approved the inclusion of Assam's tea estates in the National Mission on Edible Oils - Oil Palm (NMEO-OP), weeks after an industry body sought its intervention.

"The Tea Estate has been extracting water from the canal since 2007. Now, they have altered its course at multiple points," said Sohag Talukder, sub-divisional engineer of the Water Development ...

The industry has more women working in it than men, and many at this level as tea pluckers. A few weeks ago, I was in the Nilgiris and thought I’d spend little time on the fields.

The victim, Nilanjan Bhadra, 45, was an employee of Jayantika Tea Estate at Bidhan Nagar near Bagdogra. The body, which bore injuries, was found late on Thursday afternoon inside the tea garden.

The book Above Heron’s Pool by Heather Lovatt and Peter de Jong traces the origins of tea planting in Peerumade, noting that the first recorded cultivation took place on Penshurst Estate, where ...

At estates certified by Rainforest Alliance, the largest ethical certification scheme in Sri Lanka's tea industry, we found workers without access to drinking water and toilets in the tea fields ...