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Darjeeling Tea News: June 2012
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Tea News on Darjeeling Tea and allied Indian tea growing areas. Promotion of Darjeeling Tea through new tea boutiques. The association has chalked out plans for 20 such exclusive Darjeeling tea boutiques across the country to promote this niche product in the domestic market, DTA chairman SS Bagaria told TOI. The panel To support this effort, it has requested the Tea Board of India to support this effort and include the programme in the 12th Plan that commenced from which started from April 2012. Confirm...
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Darjeeling Tea News: November 2012
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Tea News on Darjeeling Tea and allied Indian tea growing areas. 15% rise in Darjeeling Tea prices in Europe. Darjeeling Tea has commanded 15% higher rates in Europe this year despite the financial downturn in Europe as quality up-gradation and marketing have boosted margins of the beverage that is widely regarded as the champagne of teas. Though 9 million kg was produced in Darjeeling, nearly 40 million kg was available in the global market with Darjeeling branding. The tea industry, along with Tea B...
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Darjeeling Tea News: July 2011
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Tea News on Darjeeling Tea and allied Indian tea growing areas. Dhumal writes to Centre for revival of Kangra Tea. Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has asked the Centre for a special package to revive the traditional Kangra Tea — one of the oldest variety of tea grown in the country since the British period. Links to this post. Better prospects for Darjeeling Tea this year. Last year, Darjeeling tea had suffered a production loss due to drought-like situation in the hills. Production...
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Darjeeling Tea News: January 2011
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Tea News on Darjeeling Tea and allied Indian tea growing areas. Starbucks bets on India's cafe revolution, tea culture. Labels: india tea culture. STARBUCKS will soon appear on Indian streets as the US group bets on lifestyle changes that are turning the tea-drinking country into a booming market for cafes. India's appetite for the bitter brew has never been stronger, with its overwhelmingly young population opting to while away time in shiny Western-style cafes instead of the traditional coffeehouses.
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Darjeeling Tea News: December 2014
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Tea News on Darjeeling Tea and allied Indian tea growing areas. Not just Tea, Darjeeling is more in flavor. The Indian hillside resort is known worldwide for its exported beverage, but the surrounding region offers a taste of neighbouring Tibet, Tony Tharakan finds. There also are reminders of India's colonial past, including a narrow-gauge railway known as the “Toy Train”, which makes a tourist run into the hills under power of a steam locomotive. The closest airport, Bagdogra, is 90km from Darjeeling.
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Darjeeling Tea News: September 2010
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Tea News on Darjeeling Tea and allied Indian tea growing areas. Shield for tea leaves. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) has come out with a specialty oil that can protect tea leaves from pests. The company introduced HP Tea Spray Oil in Calcutta this week. The product has its roots in the base oil that goes into the making of lubricant oil. RS Rao, executive director (direct sales) of HPCL, said the market size of tea spray oil would be 5,000 tonnes a year. Links to this post. Assam currently p...
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Darjeeling Tea News: September 2012
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Tea News on Darjeeling Tea and allied Indian tea growing areas. The ETC and the GTA have agreed to confer the protected geographical indication (PGI) status on Darjeeling Tea. Darjeeling was granted the geographical indication status by the European Union in October last year, authenticating its origin. However, the implementation of this status involves a phasing-out period within which products which do not conform to the law and are not authentic from the hill district of Bengal will be driven out...
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Darjeeling Tea News: The Perfect cup of Tea: Cheers!
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Tea News on Darjeeling Tea and allied Indian tea growing areas. The Perfect cup of Tea: Cheers! Drinking the pathetic, really morbid tea bag tea (I had run out of my regular Darjeeling tea) I got thinking about the character of a cup of good tea. It’s almost like wine. Sommeliers might go ga ga over their wine, the connoisseur of tea goes equally ecstatic over the perfect full bodied cup of tea. While I might drool over the light flavor of the Darjeeling tea. One might be so presumptuous as to say that t...
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Darjeeling Tea News: August 2010
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Tea News on Darjeeling Tea and allied Indian tea growing areas. Tea imports down 10.85% at 9.2 mn kg in Jan-June. Tea imports to India fell by 10.85 per cent to 9.2 million kg in the first six months of the current year. The country imported 10.32 million kg of tea in the April-June period last year, the Tea Board said in a statement. On the other hand, Vietnamese tea imports improved to 1.96 million kg in the first six months of this year from 1.92 million kg in the year-ago period. India accounts for a...
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Darjeeling Tea News: November 2011
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Tea News on Darjeeling Tea and allied Indian tea growing areas. Darjeeling Tea growers appeal the Center for extension of loan repayment. Special purpose tea fund. Darjeeling: The Darjeeling tea. Growers have appealed to the Center to extend the moratorium on the repayment of loan to replant bushes from five to ten years. According to the Special Purpose Tea Fund. The planters have said the scheme has very few takers in the hills as the bushes become viable only after 10 to 12 years of replanting. 8220;U...
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