On Mar 8, 2:22*pm, Nigel > wrote:
> Never purchased from it ever but I would certainly give Assam Tea
> Company a try. *It is by reputation a nicely run company with some
> good organic plantings up in North East Assam - in the quaintly named
> Doom Dooma area. *Not to be confised with the much larger Assam
> Company Ltd, founded in 1839 that has dozens of estates including the
> well known Hazelbank Garden.
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> Nigel at Teacraft
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> On Mar 8, 3:15*am, wrote:
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> > Anybody purchased tea from this place?
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Hi friends,
The topic is rather old, but I would like to share what I know about
the company.
"The Assam Company" was the first Tea Company set up in India by the
Britishers. The first garden planted by it was "Chabua", which was
untill recently owned by Tata Tea, and has now been disinvested by
them to a newly formed Cooperative, much in the lines of "Kanan Devan
Hill Plantations Ltd" down south. Assam Company was incorporated in
England. The second company to follow was "The Jorehaut Tea Company
Ltd."
Both these companies consisted of the real pioneers, who braved all
odds and opened up beautiful estates in such inaccecible places, that
even today people find it tough to negotiate the roads. Yet, the
plantations are plain SUPERB. No where else would one find so much of
compact and flawless greenery.
The Assam Company is now totally indian, owns few of the best gardens
in the quality belt of Assam and owns quite a few oil fields and other
interests in oil exploration. The best quality now comes from Doomul
Dullung, Rungagora-A and Hazelbank, as Nigel rightly says.
As for The Jorehaut Tea Company, most of its gardens, including the
once famous Cinnamara, where the British royalty had stayed during
their visit to Assam, were sold to the Assam Govt. run "Assam Tea
Corpn. Ltd". It promptly set about turning each one of the estate
economically "sick". The Government, Executives, Labour, Unions et
all, sucked the estates like Negheriting, Murmuria, Cinnamara .....
untill they became massive grazing grounds and some of the factories
sold in scrap. Four of the estates owned previously by The jorehaut
Tea Company were fortunately taken over by a private company, which
nurtured them so they are unarguably amongst the top ten estates in
Assam. These gardens are Rungagora-J, Numalighur, Borsapori and
Langharjan. The company is now known as The Jorehaut Tea Ltd., and the
famous Namring TE in Darjeeling too belongs to the same group.
Regards,
Jayesh S Pandya
http://teaunlimited.blogspot.com/