Photos 15 August 2015

Makaibari Tea Estate was established in 1859 in India’s eastern region of West Bengal. In September, buyers from the U.K., the U.S. and Japan bought a specialty Darjeeling tea, named Silver Tips Imperial, for $1,850 a kilo from the estate, becoming the most expensive Indian tea ever sold.

Signs of a recovery in India’s $1.9 trillion economy may boost demand for the beverage, helping bolster local prices in the country that is the world’s largest consumer of tea after China, where demand totaled 911 million kilograms in 2013-2014, according to India’s state-run Tea Board

Photographer: Sanjit Das/Bloomberg

A supervisor holding an umbrella watches as workers hand-pick tea leaves on the Makaibari Tea Estate.
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View of the Makaibari Tea Estate in Kurseong, West Bengal, India as workers in the field inspect and hand-pick tea leaves.
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A worker hand-picks tea leaves on the Makaibari Tea Estate.
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Workers carry baskets of hand-picked leaves through the estate.
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Silhouetted workers arrange tea leaves in a withering trough.
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A worker holds a handful of tea leaves above a withering trough.
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A worker sweeps tea leaves at the bottom of a staircase inside the Makaibari Tea Estate factory.
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A worker loads loose tea leaves into a green leaf sifter machine, as another collects tea leaves in a basket inside the factory.
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A worker shovels wilted tea into bags at the packing section of the factory.
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A variety of premium teas are laid out for tasting at the Makaibari Tea Estate.
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