Harvest Review: Assam’s Smallholders Inherit the Land

March 30, 2019

Jorhat, Assam The vast Brahmaputra Valley holds the world’s greatest concentration of tea. Commercial production began 180 years ago in a region that has 800 of the largest plantations in the world; employs 686,000 tea workers daily and is vast enough to harbor ancient tea forests that have flourished for millennia. Assam and Jorhat

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Pullock Dutta

Pullock Dutta is a journalist based at Jorhat near the Tocklai Tea Research Institute in Assam (India). He worked at The Telegraph in Calcutta as a special correspondent for 17 years. He has seen tea life; especially the lives of the workers and the managers up close and has written many articles on tea in the nearly 30 years of his journalistic career.