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Draft notification issued for 183 villages, including Valparai estates, form ESZ for Anamalai Tiger Reserve
1 week, 6 days ago

Draft notification issued for 183 villages, including Valparai estates, form ESZ for Anamalai Tiger Reserve

New Indian Express  

The draft notification will be open to the public for next 60 days within which stakeholders and residents of the 183 villages falling inside the ESZ are invited to submit objections or suggestions. TNIE spoke to multiple environmentalists, who appreciated the State Forest Department's move to include the entire Valparai plateau, except the township, in the ESZ proposal. For instance, …

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In southern India’s tea country, small but mighty efforts are brewing to bring back native forests
1 month ago

In southern India’s tea country, small but mighty efforts are brewing to bring back native forests

Associated Press  

UDHAGAMANDALAM, India — Scattered groves of native trees, flowers and the occasional prehistoric burial ground are squeezed between hundreds of thousands of tea shrubs in southern India’s Nilgiris region — a gateway to a time before colonization and the commercial growing of tea that reshaped the country’s mountain landscapes. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest …

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Manjolai Tea Estates Case: High Court to Decide on Future of Tea Plantations
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Manjolai Tea Estates Case: High Court to Decide on Future of Tea Plantations

The Hindu  

The Madras High Court is set to hear final arguments in the Manjolai tea estates case, with the fate of the 99-year-long lease hanging in the balance. The case revolves around the question of whether the tea estates can continue to operate in the reserve forest area, with the workers' livelihoods and the environment at stake.

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Sri Lanka’s tea estate workers courted by presidential candidates
3 months ago

Sri Lanka’s tea estate workers courted by presidential candidates

Al Jazeera  

Whoever Sri Lanka’s next president is, Muthuthevarkittan Manohari isn’t expecting much to change in her daily struggle to feed the four children and elderly mother with whom she lives in a dilapidated room in a tea estate. Both leading candidates in Saturday’s presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of thousands of tea estate workers, but …

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The tea gardens at Manjolai fall silent as company gets ready to cease operations
6 months ago

The tea gardens at Manjolai fall silent as company gets ready to cease operations

The Hindu  

Last Friday, a solemn quiet descended upon the once-vibrant tea estates of Manjolai and adjoining Ooththu, and Naalumukku, shattering the tranquillity that had long defined this picturesque corner of the Western Ghats. Acquiring 8,374 acres through a 99-year lease from the Zamin of Singampatti — the money helped the Zamin meet some legal expenses — BBTC transformed this rugged terrain …

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Dooars and the Aberforth of tea
1 year ago

Dooars and the Aberforth of tea

Live Mint  

I am drinking a strong CTC from the Dooars, in north Bengal, this week, made by a small tea farmer, unbranded, but fresh from the factory. Unfortunately, this also means Dooars tea is made and sold as a commodity, a bulk tea that is bought and blended with Assam tea—the Dooars add more body to the cup and also help …

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Indian grant to be used for education, health sectors in Sri Lanka’s estate areas, says Minister Jeevan Thondaman
1 year, 4 months ago

Indian grant to be used for education, health sectors in Sri Lanka’s estate areas, says Minister Jeevan Thondaman

The Hindu  

The recently announced Indian grant of ₹75 crore, for development projects targeting Sri Lanka’s Malaiyaha Tamils, will be used primarily for the education and health sectors in the island’s long-neglected tea estate region, according to Jeevan Thondaman, Minister of Water Supply and Estate Infrastructure Development. The grant, amounting to roughly $9 million, was among the announcements made by Prime Minister …

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Invasive weed threatens elephant habitats in Tamil Nadu
1 year, 5 months ago

Invasive weed threatens elephant habitats in Tamil Nadu

The Hindu  

An aquatic weed native to some countries in Central and South America, including Peru, is threatening elephant habitats and foraging areas in Valparai, a Tamil Nadu hill station close to the Kerala border, and reviving the risk of human-elephant conflicts in the region. Ludwigia peruviana, which grows fast along water bodies, has infested the majority of the hill station’s swamps, …

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Kangra tea’s calling card
1 year, 6 months ago

Kangra tea’s calling card

Live Mint  

The oolong was my introduction to Kangra, the tea region in Himachal Pradesh. For us tea drinkers, green tea is relatively new, having presented itself as an option a decade or so ago, but it was being made in Kangra much earlier. Frank Miller, a tea expert who spent time in Kangra in the 1960s, wrote in an article in …

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Travel for tea
1 year, 6 months ago

Travel for tea

Live Mint  

For the last few years, conversations with my friend Elizeth, a Brazilian tea importer, have been entirely about India and her great desire to visit it. “The rose-tinted view of colonialism needs to be revisited, not rejected,” says Rudra Chatterjee of Luxmi Estates, which includes the Makaibari Tea Estate in Darjeeling. In Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, Wah Tea Estate’s fourth-generation planter, …

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Storm in a tea cup
2 years ago

Storm in a tea cup

The Hindu  

Ganesh, a 53-year-old estate worker at the government-run Tamil Nadu Tea Plantation Corporation estate in Cherangode, in The Nilgiris district, is a worried man. Managing Director of TANTEA, and Conservator of Forests, D. Venkatesh, said that TANTEA had been recording losses over the last 10 years, and that the government had only returned “unproductive” estate areas, where there was no …

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Half of Darjeeling tea estates up for sale amid financial crisis, here's why
2 years, 3 months ago

Half of Darjeeling tea estates up for sale amid financial crisis, here's why

Firstpost  

The planters, both big and small, are mulling over selling it off for a good price. The small planters, who own single estates, are more keen to sell their gardens, while the big groups are resistant to the idea, according to the planters in the area More than half of the tea estates in the Darjeeling hills are up for …

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Last remaining patches face threat
2 years, 6 months ago

Last remaining patches face threat

The Hindu  

Once a pristine rainforest and one of the most bio-diverse regions in the Nilgiris, the Gudalur-Pandalur landscape has become a proverbial minefield for wildlife, attempting to cling on to the last remaining patches of the degraded rainforest. Among these fragmented bio-diverse landscapes is the O’Valley region that, owing to the “undecided” nature of the land’s status, is at risk of …

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Assam’s tea gardens to get first high schools ever: Why this is historic
2 years, 7 months ago

Assam’s tea gardens to get first high schools ever: Why this is historic

Firstpost  

It is for the first time in 75 years of India’s independence that high schools will start functioning in Assam’s tea estates. A total of 97 high schools will start their academic session on 10 May, while 22 more will become functional next year In the 2017-18 state budget, the Assam government had proposed to set up 200 tea garden …

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Notes from a tea estate
2 years, 9 months ago

Notes from a tea estate

The Hindu  

I am beyond intrigued by the russet-hued liquid that’s playfully twinkling in the light of the midday winter sun, as I give a vigorous swirl to the goblet that contains it. I open my eyes and I am still very much at the lush Attabarrie Tea Estate in the village of Demow in Upper Assam, along the southern banks of …

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Dravidian majors field fresh faces in Gudalur
3 years, 9 months ago

Dravidian majors field fresh faces in Gudalur

The Hindu  

Two first-time candidates from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagm and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam will go head-to-head in the Gudalur constituency in the Nilgiris district. The Sri Lankan repatriates, along with the Adivasis in Gudalur, are primarily employed as labourers in the large tea, coffee and pepper estates, with very limited land ownership. Activists said that the large tea …

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Shrinking tree cover and increasing tourist arrivals create an existential crisis for the lion-tailed macaque and other denizens of the forest in Valparai
3 years, 11 months ago

Shrinking tree cover and increasing tourist arrivals create an existential crisis for the lion-tailed macaque and other denizens of the forest in Valparai

The Hindu  

The setting sun sends slanting shafts of smoky beams to stroke the tops of neatly cropped tea bushes, strobe-lighting the dance of the dust mites. This is daily drama in Valparai where elephants, lion-tailed macaques, bisons, bonnet macaques, Nilgiri tahr and other creatures of the jungle are forced to share their shrinking turf with ever expanding tea estates and the …

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Neoclassical five-bedroom London home goes on sale for £17.95million
4 years, 2 months ago

Neoclassical five-bedroom London home goes on sale for £17.95million

Daily Mail  

A 19th century, neoclassical home designed by royal architect John Nash has gone on the market for a staggering £17.95million. Pictured, one of the five bedrooms available in the property The Grade-I, five-bedroom property on Hanover Terrace in Regent's Park, which is home to some of London's elite, was once owned by Rothschild tycoon Baron Solomon Benedict de Worms, the …

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