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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI: Nepal is worried about the survival of its tea sector over the possibility of India imposing levies on their tea exports. "Diplomatically India says that Nepal for India is like a ...

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 ...

requesting him to impose import duty on tea bought from Nepal to prevent the indiscriminate influx of tea from the neighbouring country, which, they said, was affecting the domestic and international ...