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North Bengal Tea producing areas include district of Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar and North Dinajpur. North Bengal has about 450 tea gardens spread out in the Darjeeling hills, Terai and Dooars region that are registered as sellers in the Siliguri Tea Auction Centre. The youngest tea gardens are Chinchula Tea Estate,Raimatang Tea Estate and Kalchini Tea Estate all of which are 72 years old. The largest tea garden is Samsing Tea Estate of 1256.60 hectares. With about 3.5 lakh permanent workers and 52% of the workforce in these gardens is female. It is estimated that more than 25,00,000 people are dependent on the tea industry in the region. Tea is one of the surviving industry other than Tourism in North Bengal. The land for the plantations is Government land and is given in lease to the employers. Each lease has to be renewed after 30 years, and is subject to the condition that the land will be used for tea production alone. ==History== Tea cultivation in the North Bengal had started off about 120 to 150 years ago in Dooars region. In the year 1840 tea was planted in Darjeeling district and its surrounding area in North Bengal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North Bengal Tea Industry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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