Tea and Darjeeling Tea, now Wild Tea

Nowadays all are trying to go back to nature and anything natural. So also, the case of drinks of everyday life- Tea. In Manipur tea leaves are plucked from the wild not from commercial tea gardens. And this wild tea is giving a separate taste and earthy aroma. Recent scientific research has also indicated that wild plants contain higher antioxidant levels & more nutritional value than normal farmed tea.

According to Nashat Hussain, Co-Founder at Beyondarie, a tea startup in Assam, there are  wild tea clusters in the interiors of the North East region, considering   tea is native to the region along with China. Since ‘wild tea’ grows in the wild, there are plenty of natural saplings  coming up every year as the wild tea trees shed their seeds during  fall.  He said unlike the conventional tea industry, which started during the British era, wild tea in India is just a few years old and will take time to pick up.