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Tea manufacturing in Assam
2019
Banglanatak
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Assam, a state in north-east India is one of the world's largest tea producing belts, with tea estates covering more than 2,00,0000 hectares of land. There are thousands of big and small tea estates that manufacture tea for both domestic and export markets. Tea is a labour intensive industry that is scaled up with large scale industrial production systems.
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- Title: Tea manufacturing in Assam
- Date Created: 2019
- Location: Dibrugarh
- Subject Keywords: Tea, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Singpho, Tangsa
- Rights: Banglanatak.com
- About the craft: Tea occupies an important place in Assam which is grown both in the Brahmaputra and Barak plains. Tea is a native plant of this region. Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Nagaon and Sonitpur are the districts where tea gardens are mostly found. Assam and West Bengal together produce more than 50% of tea in India and about 1/6th of the tea produced in the world. Tea industry has contributed substantially to the economy of Assam. The scientific name for the tea plant is Camellia Sinensis. The Assam variety is known as Assamica. The history of tea industry in Assam dates back to 1823 when Robert Bruce, an official of the British Empire discovered tea plants growing wild in upper Brahmaputra Valley.
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