“The first flush tea is a premier product and no gardens want to stop work,” said a planter. Sources estimate that even a mid-sized Darjeeling tea garden would lose up to ₹1 crore if plucking is ...

It will displace tea garden and cinchona garden workers who have already been denied rights to their ancestral lands,” Bista said. Bista also pointed out that the Darjeeling hills, Terai ...