Tea plantation in Darjeeling had started sometime in 1850's as a trial and commercially in 1852 by the Britishers. Since then upto 1960's tea farming was more or less organically practised and gained popularity at E E C countries for its excellent aroma which could not be produced in any other part of the globe because of its typical climate and soil character under favourable and healthy green environment. But unfortunately, Darjeeling planters introduced the method of tea farming by applying synthetic fertilisers, plant protection chemicals and weedicides, sometimes in sixties, in almost all 86 running tea gardens covering approx 20,000 hects of land, to bring down the production cost of tea. The result in terms of production.
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