Tagged: tea research association

Assam Is Losing the Chemical War on Its Worst Pest, So Gardens Are Recruiting Bugs

The tea mosquito bug has out-evolved two of the insecticide classes bred to kill it, and the European Union just tightened the residue limit on both anyway. Here is what a garden reaches for once the spray can is failing at both ends.

The Tocklai Institute

The complete record of the Tocklai Tea Research Institute at Jorhat, the world's oldest tea research station and the office behind nearly every clone, pest study, and quality benchmark this office has ever certified. How a single chemist's post in 1891 became a formal station in 1911, what its eleven divisions do, and the science it has produced since.