Plucking of the first flush crop in the Darjeeling hills, known as the world’s most expensive ... to Tea Board of India data. According to industry insiders, competition from Nepal tea has ...

Sanjay Choudhry, the owner of Ringtong tea estate, says high labour wages and cheap imports from Nepal have hurt business [Gurvinder Singh/Al Jazeera] In 2022, Darjeeling exported 3.02mkg of tea ...

Finally, in terms of prices, Sri Lankan tea was the most expensive in the world, having auctioned for $3.11 per kilogram in 2021.