For generations, women have been the backbone of Assam’s tea industry, enduring harsh conditions, exploitation, and low wages ...

This is the first time in recent memory that labourers have refused to pluck the first flush tea leaves and tea gardens are closed because of the cease-work despite huge financial implications ...

Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA), one of the major tea buyers, had recommended that a farmer should pluck just two leaves and a bud which are said to produce high-quality tea. "The two leaves ...