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Why Darjeeling tea may face extinction

Knockoff teas from Nepal are stealing global demand and climate change is shrinking supply

Women tea workers are plucking tea leaves during cloudy monsoon at the British-era tea garden Orange Valley Tea Garden spread over an area of 347.26 hectares (858.1 acres) at an altitude ranging from 3,500 to 6,000 feet (1,100 to 1,800 m) above the mean sea level, is a bio-organic garden producing mainly black tea at Darjeeling, West Bengal, India on 11/06/2022. India is the world's second-largest tea producer Country after China. The Poor female tea workers' work wages are very low, and most of them are coming from neighbouring country Nepal in search of work.  (Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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