Tagged: small tea grower

The Tea Planters' Association Whose Name Is on a Football Shield

Indian planters formed an association in 1935. A football shield still contested in Jorhat carries its name, and in September 2025 it was proposing a minimum price for green leaf.

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.