Jay Shree Tea & Industries Ltd.
Name of the Tea Estate : Puttabong ( Tukvar ) Tea Estate
Address : P. O. & District: Darjeeling, Pin - 734101 (West Bengal)
Location : 9 Kms to the North East of Darjeeling Town.
Year of Acquisition : 1967
Features : Producing Orthodox Black Tea & Green Tea. Around 23% area of the garden under high quality clonal plantation.
Area under cultivation of tea : 436.72 Hectare
Area under irrigation : 100 Hectare by Gravitational Force .
Gross yield : 250 Tons per year
Welfare Activities : The garden employs 1476 workers who are provided with all the amenities such as health care, housing and social upliftment. In March1992, a Shiv Gouri temple was built for worship by the local people. In the garden hospital 2025 cases of tubal ligation has been performed. Every year blood donation camp, dental care camp, eye camp, routine immunization are organized. Besides, it also has facility for snake bite treatment.
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Special features : The garden produces first flush teas from the month of February onwards. Oldest Garden, Factory & Bungalow.
Present Executives and their contact details :
Mr. G. C. Somani, Superintendent
Mobile: +919733052405
E-mail: gopalchandsomani@rediffmail.com
Mr. Rajesh Pareek, Manager
Mobile: +919733127121
E-mail: rajeshpareek2007@rediffmail.com
Mr. Vikash Poddar,Assistant Manager (Accounts)
Mobile: +919733221079
E-mail: vikashpoddar17@rediffmail.com
Planted in 1852 this is the first tea estate in the history of Darjeeling Tea Plantation. The tea estate stretches from an altitude of 1500 ft to 6500 ft above MSL. This garden is planted with Darjeeling Clonal, Chinary bushes and Clonal tea stock especially developed to meet the agro climatic conditions of the area. In order to have a long term sustainable cultivation practices with a objective of producing healthy and safe tea, the garden is practicing IPM for long time. This garden is one of the biggest tea estate in Darjeeling. Tea area comprising of 5 divisions located at a stretch of approximately 20 Km from Darjeeling city to Sikkim State border.
The garden produces Orthodox black, green and specially Darjeeling Tea. The garden has been very particular in ecological up gradation and maintaining bio diversity since many years. Different types of annual grasses, Leguminous Crop, short height shrubs and tall trees are planted in fallow land, boundaries of the section and vacant patches. Besides this, for sustainable production the garden has huge plant of Vermicompost, Cattle farming and making of liquid fertilizers with local herbs. The mountain breeze kissed by the great Kanchanjunga makes the teas produced by this garden UNIQUE.It is a low Altitude garden ranging from 1500 ft.to 2800 ft MSL facing North.
It is situated in rain shadow area but the garden has 75 % area under sprinkler Irrigation. The garden is well connected with roads and pagdandies for better supervision and working convenience. The main road connects Darjeeling & Jorethang, from Darjeeling the garden is 16 Kms. & Jorethang which is one of the main town of Sikkim state is only 7 Kms. from the factory. The garden produces early good first flush tea and fetches premium prices. The contribution of February & March crop is approx 20% of the total crop. Every year the quality of tea is improving.The garden has its own Nursery. It has also timber & bamboo forest. The garden has taken up massive developmental work such as uprooting, replanting & soil rehabilitation.
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