Question

Write a short paragraph of tea garden

Answer 1

Tea gardens carry a very colonial image in my mind. British guys running the Tea estates, living in huge bungalows within the estate. A tea processing and packaging unit and a whole lot of workers plucking the tea gardens with bamboo baskets on their back. To be an owner of a Tea Estate has always been aspirational for people. I think it still continues to be, though the corporations rather than individuals now own most estates. North East part of India, particularly eastern Assam and area around Darjeeling produce more than 20% of world’s tea. And it may not be wrong to call them the teaspoon of the world. I had seen tea gardens earlier during my Kerala and Sri Lanka holidays.