We were pleased to have seen on the international newswires that the three-week long blockade of exports of prized Darjeeling tea has ended with the resolution of a deadlock between plantation workers and the estate owners over wage hike demand.
The Darjeeling Terai Dooars Plantation Labour Union, owing allegiance to Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, a political outfit demanding separate Statehood for Gorkhaland, recently lifted their blockade of 85 tea gardens in the hills of North Bengal since March 6, which prevented dispatch of the freshly-plucked first tea leaves of the season from the gardens to various export destinations.
The wage pact came at a heavy price for the planters, who were forced to agree to it in a desperate move to prevent the rotting of the season’s first tea crop, the most premium of all teas produced during a year and fully exported to Europe, United States and Japan.
We look forward to our First Flush Darjeeling offerings to be in place in the next month!
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