Darjeeling tea faces crisis

Losing its flavour along with falling production

One of the tea aficionados top favourites, the Darjeeling tea, faces an uncertain future as the 87 odd gardens in the pristine hills of northern West Bengal are caught up in a vicious cyclic problem from which escape could be costly. The risk which this tea variant, one of India’s top exports faces, is losing its original taste and aroma even as it is challenged with declining production.

The Tea Board of India, in a recent attempt to find the specific problems of the gardens across the country has shared its concern over replantation in the Darjeeling gardens. Out of all