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 Tocklai Tea Research Institute at Jorhat, the world's oldest tea research station: from India's first tea chemist in 1891 to the Tocklai Experimental Station of 1911, what its eleven divisions do, and the science it has produced since.