Switching to organic growing methods to meet consumer demand is expensive. The skilled work ... A few hours across the border, however, Nepal’s tea community is in the budding stages of a ...

The stakes are high for Nepal, which sells about 90% of its high-grade orthodox tea – loose-leaf tea produced by traditional methods -- and about 50% of its lower-grade crush, tear and curl tea ...

Nepal is aiming to diversify its tea exports, which are currently primarily directed to India. China has shown increased interest in Nepal's orthodox and specialty tea. These trends are driven by an ...

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 ...

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 ...