BBC's Darjeeling Best-known tea Garden Photographs

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DARJEELING : For tea drinkers, it doesn't come much better than a cup of hand-picked Darjeeling - India's best-known tea, grown in the mountains of the eastern state of West Bengal. Photographer Arindam Mukherjee chronicles life on a tea garden in Darjeeling. Darjeeling produces about 10,000 tonnes of tea every year and employs about 45,000 women who work as tea pluckers. Darjeeling tea, often called the fine wine of teas, is famous for its special aroma and is preferred by connoisseurs around the world. Plucking tea needs precision as only the tender shoots of the plant are picked. Women workers begin plucking early in the morning when the leaves are still covered in dew.

Darjeeling Best-known tea Garden Photographs