Nagri Farm Tea Garden is a village in the
Jorebunglow Sukhiapokhri CD block in the
Darjeeling Sadar subdivision
Darjeeling Sadar subdivision is a subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Subdivisions
Darjeeling district is divided into the following administrative subdivisions:
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of the
Darjeeling district
Darjeeling District is the northernmost district of the state of West Bengal in eastern India in the foothills of the Himalayas. The district is famous for its hill station and Darjeeling tea. Darjeeling is the district headquarters.
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in the state of
West Bengal
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,
India
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History
Nagri Farm was initially established as a dairy farm in 1857 by a British entrepreneur, Greenhill. However, the owner changed course and by 1883, it had been fully developed as a tea garden, but the ‘farm’ suffix remained intact. Greenhill, even built a tea factory and appointed a British manager. Later, Greenhill sold the property to Williamson Magor and Company, who formally established the Nagri Farm Tea Company Limited. The wooden structure of the tea factory was gutted in successive fires in 1912 and 1962. It was then rebuilt with its current cement structure. In 2001, the Chamong Group, purchased Nagri Farm Tea Estate. Interestingly, even now, it produces ginger, cardamom, oranges and other agricultural products, in addition to its China and Assam hybrid teas.
Geography
Location
Nagri Farm Tea Garden is located at .
Nagri Farm Tea Garden sprawls over an area of of tea plantations, out of a total area of , in the Rong Bong valley. The gentle slopes of the tea garden range in height from .
Other tea gardens in the area are:
Dhajea,
Balasun,
Thurbo,
Gopaldhara,
Avongrove and
Soureni
Soureni is a village in the Mirik CD block in the Mirik subdivision of the Darjeeling district, in West Bengal, India.
History
Dakman Rai, the famous Nepali sardar (landlord), was given large tracts of land by the British during the establishm ...
.
Area overview
The map alongside shows a part of the southern portion of the
Darjeeling Himalayan hill region
Darjeeling Himalayan hill region or Darjeeling Himalaya is the mountainous area on the north-western side of the state of West Bengal in India. This region belongs to the Eastern Himalaya range. The Darjeeling district except the Siliguri subdiv ...
in the Darjeeling district. In the
Darjeeling Sadar subdivision
Darjeeling Sadar subdivision is a subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Subdivisions
Darjeeling district is divided into the following administrative subdivisions:
Police stations
Police stations in ...
61.00% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 39.00% of the population lives in the urban areas. In the
Mirik subdivision
Mirik subdivision is a subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India. It was declared a subdivision on 30 March 2017.
Subdivisions
Darjeeling district is divided into the following administrative subdivisions:
...
80.11% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 19.89% lives in the urban areas.
There are 78 tea gardens/ estates (the figure varies slightly according to different sources), in the district, producing and largely exporting
Darjeeling tea
Darjeeling tea is a tea made from ''Camellia sinensis var. sinensis'' that is grown and processed in Darjeeling or Kalimpong Districts in West Bengal, India. Since 2004, the term ''Darjeeling tea'' has been a registered geographical indication ...
. It engages a large proportion of the population directly/ indirectly. Some tea gardens were identified in the 2011 census as
census town
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India
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s or villages. Such places are marked in the map as CT (census town) or R (rural/ urban centre). Specific tea estate pages are marked TE.
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
Demographics
According to the
2011 Census of India
The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...
, Nagri Farm Tea Garden had a total population of 3.655 of which 1,856 (51%) were males and 1,799 (51%) were females. There were 278 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Nagri Farm Tea Garden was 2,795 (76.47% of the population over 6 years).
Economy
On taking over the Nagri Farm Tea Graden, one of the first steps taken by the Chamong Group was to make it an organic tea estate. The Nagri Farm Tea Garden acquired its 100% bio-organic tea garden certification in 2004. It acquired its fair-trade certification in 2009. The Chamong Group upgraded the tea factory with modern machinery capable of higher production. With these improvements, Nagri Farm Tea Garden has built a fabulous standing among foreign tea buyers and its annual production of 200 million tonnes is nowhere near the market demand.
Chamong Group
The Chamong Group is the largest producer of organic
Darjeeling tea
Darjeeling tea is a tea made from ''Camellia sinensis var. sinensis'' that is grown and processed in Darjeeling or Kalimpong Districts in West Bengal, India. Since 2004, the term ''Darjeeling tea'' has been a registered geographical indication ...
and
Assam tea
Assam tea is a black tea named after the region of its production, Assam, India. It is manufactured specifically from the plant ''Camellia sinensis'' var. ''assamica'' (Masters). The Assam tea plant is indigenous to Assam—initial efforts to plan ...
. It produces 3,000 tonnes annually and employs 10,000 persons (including 7,000 women). It owns 4 tea estates in Assam and 13 in Darjeeling. The tea estates in Darjeeling are:
Pussimbing,
Chamong,
Tumsong, Lingia, Nagri Farm, Bannockburn,
Dhajea, Shree Dwarika,
Ging,
Soom,
Phoobsering, Tukdah and
Marybong. It exports tea to the US, Europe, Japan and the Middle East.
References
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{{Darjeeling District
Villages in Darjeeling district