BJP leader Champai Soren commended the Assam government's new bill granting land rights to tea plantation workers. The ...

Charleston Tea Plantation has launched a line of bottled, chilled “RTD” (ready-to-drink) teas. Charleston Tea Plantation teas are grown without the use of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and ...

The implications of these are that the tea plantations require large-scale replanting with vegetatively propagated (VPP) higher-yielding tea, the infilling of vacancies and constant weeding. The acute ...

The recent sellout agreement between Sri Lankan plantation unions and employers is part of a ruthless drive by the tea industry to boost profits by driving up productivity and destroying the limited ...

CHARLESTON, SC (WCBD)- It’s no secret that in the South we love our tea sweet and our chicken fried. Have you ever wondered where the tea in your glass came from? Unless you bought your teabags from ...

Assam tea planters' body demands compensation and relief from welfare obligations for land distribution to plantation workers ...

Paying your workers less than a decent wage is not a “burden”. It’s a responsibility ...

If the words “only” and “free” are applied to a location, there is a very good chance I am going to try to visit it. That is just what I did as those words apply to the Charleston Tea Plantation, ...

Manju Gaur climbs the staircase with a fierce but steady determination. The building is decrepit, some walls crumbling, others caked in a thin, greasy film. Just ahead of her is a row of police ...

For more than a century, Ceylon Tea was not just an export crop. It was the main foreign exchange earner of the nation — a ...