views of a visitor to Assam Heritage Tea

North East Tea  Frontier. – India.                                                                                  11/4/16      

 

 

This year's trip  took in Assam & part of Arunachal – a huge area of mountainous primary jungle with roads described as all-weather, linking the administrative centres.  A few pioneers around 25 years ago saw the potential for tea cultivation & we were fortunate to meet long term performers of the region -  where Assam Heritage Tea is closely working and advising them for all future developments by empowering the organic tea farms.

 

The topography is breath taking.  Years ago administrators drew lines on the map so here is India, Burma, China. The soil, plants, rivers, rain, wind, sun, humidity did not read the script. The Yunnan district of China produces the finest tea by general acceptance & Arunachal is in local distance terms, close by.  The virgin ground has never seen a pesticide or chemical fertiliser. 

 

Tea growers today are the family operators of a patchwork of estates sometimes amounting to a couple of acres each.  Assam Heritage Tea has brought its expertise in setting up state of the art  tea factories along the frontier regions bordering Tibet and Myanmar .  The locals have taken to mastering the speciality tea manufacturing skills with great aptitude under the guidance of Assam Heritage Tea.

 

 

Chet Engine

(visitor from U.K.)