Encompassing an area of nearly 8,000 hectares spread across the Dooars, Terai and Darjeeling regions of North Bengal, the tea made in the estates of the Duncan-Goenka group has produced some of the best brews.
The group has in its fold, gardens that are over 100 years old.
The company is now a sick industrial undertaking under the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction and is trying to implement a rehabilitation scheme.
Its crop stood at around 12.9 million kg for the 18-month period ending September 2014, according to the latest annual report.
A company official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that due to labour trouble some of the company’s 1s6 tea estates are only partially operational -- Bagracote was ‘operational.’
He declined to take further questions, saying that gardens could not be run optimally due to labour problems. DIL’s tea estates have some 12,000 permanent workers.
