Description
Equal Exchange Fairly Traded. Organic Assam Black Tea. Small Farmers. Big Change. USDA Organic. This mellow and malty Assam black tea celebrates the unique flavor characteristics of the Assam tea-growing region. Add milk to enhance your experience. 6 Pack contains six boxes (20 tea bags per box). A new initiative in the Assam regionWe are proud to support the emerging Karbi-Anglong Small Farmers tea project in Assam, India. Assam became the epicenter of the colonial tea plantation system in the 1800s when the British lost their trade monopoly with China. Vast plantations were established under British rule and workers were coerced from the most vulnerable populations in central India through indentured contracts to labor on the plantations. Today, Assam's tea plantations are still fraught with labor injustices and many plantation laborers live and work in terrible conditions. The Karbi-Anglong Small Farmers tea project represents the beginning of a small farmer tea model in Assam. Together, were building an alternative tea model and a farmer-led future for the tea industry.
