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Organic
Tea in Darjeeling, India |
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Links
to publications
Asia
and Away (Voyage)
FEER
LifeStyle+Travel |
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Tea
Pluckers at Makaibari Estate, Dajeeling |
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Mr.
Banerjee at his morning tea test. |
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Mr.
Banerjee at work, Makaibari Estate, Dajeeling |
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Tea
Drying Process at Makaibari Estate, Dajeeling |
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“Life
is chaos, the world is chaos. The only constant is change. I like
chaos and the way you position yourself in it. Where do we come
from? What are we doing here and where are we going? We need to
answer these questions to be free, to find our way. That’s
what I’m doing in my tea garden.”
Not the sort of introduction one would expect
from a tea plantation owner in the Darjeeling hills. But then,
Rajah Banerjee is not an ordinary man.
The enigmatic fourth heir to Makaibari sells the most expensive
tea in the world. His top of the range Silver Tips wholesales
at 440$ a kilo and markets in Europe, the US and Japan are fighting
for the estate’s annual crop. 85% of Makaibari’s tea
is sold outside India.
The Makaibari Tea Estates produce only organic and biodynamic
tea. The green revolution brings high dividends and other plantations
are increasingly taking note.
Full
Text by Tom Vater www.tomvater.com
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