subject: Assam Tea Tourism Festival, Jorhat, Assam [print this page] Rich, green land of rolling plains of dense forests, where the mighty Brahmaputra charts its majestic course. A region of many forests and nature reserves, where elephants and rhinoceros horns roam share habitat with swamp deer, wild buffaloes and tigers. On either side of the river, the Brahmaputra Valley, more than 2,30,000 acres of lush tea gardens. This region has a rich alluvial soil, resulting in 200-300 cm rainfall throughout the year.
Tea grows in abundance, both in the Brahmaputra Valley and the Barak Valley in the southern region of Assam. The total tea production in Assam is about 450 million kg per year, more than 50 percent of the total production of tea in India. Scores of papers were taken describing the growing and manufacturing process of tea since ages. The British had established plantations in Assam in the sweat of their brow and today the tea industry is one of the most lucrative activities in modern history. With the discovery of tea in Assam, where the export history of the country a new direction. Assam tea and the two are inextricably linked, and the state is one of the major tea producing countries in the world.
Jorhat, the site of Assam Tea Tourism Festival, 2010, 350 km from Dispur (Guwahati), Assam's capital, in the northeastern part of India. It is available for domestic airlines from Kolkata and hopping flight from Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Bengaluru to Guwahati's Loknath Gopinath Bordoloi Airport near Dispur and Chabua airport in Dibrugarh, from where transport can be arranged by train, bus or taxi to Jorhat. Road and rail transport from Guwahati to Jorhat takes about 6-7 hours of Dibrugarh and about 4 hours from the airport.
Assam Tea Tourism Festival, Jorhat, Assam
By: bikrom neog
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