The problems facing upper Assam's tea gardens are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore for workers like Bidesh Kamar and Sumitra Tanti. Recent floods disrupted work for weeks in the northeast ...

Guwahati: The Assam government is actively considering a proposal to make available tea at a subsidized rate to all ration card holders at a time when the plantation industry is celebrating a crucial ...

Deep in the tea belt of Assam, where emerald plantations stretch across five districts of northeastern India, a quiet ...

In collaboration with Fairtrade Foundation and key industry stakeholders, the Lab undertook a market system analysis in Assam to understand the key working and living condition challenges on ...

Christian leaders in India’s northeastern state of Assam have cautiously welcomed a proposed amendment to an existing law, promising tea estate workers legal ownership of the land they have been ...

The dependable quality of mass-market black tea masks a complex history of colonial plantations and industrial science.