Tagged: small tea grower

The Tea Trade Body That Still Gives Away a Football Shield

In 1935 Indian planters won a seat on a colonial tax committee. Their association went on to fund a football trophy still contested in Jorhat today, and in September 2025 it was proposing a minimum price for green leaf to force bad tea out of the market.

The Rise of the Small Tea Grower

Most Assam tea today does not come from a colonial-era estate. It comes from a plot smaller than a football pitch, owned by a family who has never processed a single leaf of it. Here is who actually grows the tea, by weight and measure.